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Yea it is a bit confusing. You install the driver when you first install at boot time. There's usually a utility on the CD (at least for 3ware), some assume you can figure it out. They want you to copy the files to a floppy (old school) because these have been around for a while and that was the RAID drivers were loaded in the pre-Windows Vista era. Now you can just copy them to a flash drive. Almost every RAID Card manufacturer does the same. It's just assumed to be common knowledge if you're buying on of these cards. It got me for a while as well because I also skipped over the manual like always ha. I actually looked on the CD and saw that it was zipped. Which is why it wasn't working. I believe the manual is incorrect when it says you can use the 3ware CD directly.

The drivers are usually located in a zip file or on a folder on the CD which you extract to a floppy. But nowadays we have flash drives and what not so you can just copy it there. When it asks you for the location of the driver, point to the flash drive.

I didn't read over Adaptec's User Guide, but 3Ware tells you have to make the driver disk first.