promise drivers promise fast track 376 378

Hi All
I really hope you can help me with this.
I have a MSI (yes I regret it) K8T Neo mobo – when I try to install Vista it won’t see my SATA Hard drives – as expected but the problem is it wont recognize the Promise Raid drivers either.
First I tried loading the promise drivers (Promise fast track 376/378) and it didn’t even see the drivers.
Second I tried copying the Win XP drivers to the root directory of the floppy – it saw them but when I selected the Promise fast track 376/378 driver to install it gave me the Following message: “The [WinXP Promise FastTrack 376/378 ™ Controller (A:\fasttx2k.INF)] device driver could not be installed. Make sure the driver files are correct and located on the driver instillation media.”
Third I tried downloading the updated drivers from MSI and repeated one and two with those drivers – same result with the same message.
Fourth I tried deleting the textsetup.oem as suggested in another thread - same result with the same message.
And lastly – AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
These drivers are correct and work fine with Win XP as I have just installed on a second hard drive and had to install them on the F6 prompt.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Reb
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Reb
If, as you say, you have XP installed on a 2nd hard drive (with Promis RAID drivers working), then I suggest you install Vista via that XP installation instead of booting from the Vista DVD.
Dave
"Reb" wrote in message

Hi All
I really hope you can help me with this.
I have a MSI (yes I regret it) K8T Neo mobo - when I try to install Vista it won't see my SATA Hard drives - as expected but the problem is it wont recognize the Promise Raid drivers either.
First I tried loading the promise drivers (Promise fast track 376/378) and it didn't even see the drivers.
Second I tried copying the Win XP drivers to the root directory of the floppy - it saw them but when I selected the Promise fast track 376/378 driver to install it gave me the Following message: "The [WinXP Promise FastTrack 376/378 T Controller (A:\fasttx2k.INF)] device driver could not be installed. Make sure the driver files are correct and located on the driver instillation media."
Third I tried downloading the updated drivers from MSI and repeated one and two with those drivers - same result with the same message.
Fourth I tried deleting the textsetup.oem as suggested in another thread - same result with the same message.
And lastly - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
These drivers are correct and work fine with Win XP as I have just installed on a second hard drive and had to install them on the F6 prompt.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Reb
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Dave
Sounds great - how do i do that?
Reb
"Dave Johnson" wrote:

Reb
If, as you say, you have XP installed on a 2nd hard drive (with Promis RAID drivers working), then I suggest you install Vista via that XP installation instead of booting from the Vista DVD.
Dave
"Reb" wrote in message Hi All
I really hope you can help me with this.
I have a MSI (yes I regret it) K8T Neo mobo - when I try to install Vista it won't see my SATA Hard drives - as expected but the problem is it wont recognize the Promise Raid drivers either.
First I tried loading the promise drivers (Promise fast track 376/378) and it didn't even see the drivers.
Second I tried copying the Win XP drivers to the root directory of the floppy - it saw them but when I selected the Promise fast track 376/378 driver to install it gave me the Following message: "The [WinXP Promise FastTrack 376/378 T Controller (A:\fasttx2k.INF)] device driver could not be installed. Make sure the driver files are correct and located on the driver instillation media."
Third I tried downloading the updated drivers from MSI and repeated one and two with those drivers - same result with the same message.
Fourth I tried deleting the textsetup.oem as suggested in another thread - same result with the same message.
And lastly - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
These drivers are correct and work fine with Win XP as I have just installed on a second hard drive and had to install them on the F6 prompt.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Reb
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http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx?mid=3d49db12-a82b-4424-9be1-1c6b9e7a2db8&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup