Copied it off of the 'Drivers and Utilities' disk. Loaded it on the clean install.  Didn't need the RAID or Matrix Storage Manager, just the AHCI driver. Dave
  Hello, Sorry for the simple question. Trying to clean install Vista Premium 64bit on my Studio 1737. I have the set of Dell disks for Vista premium 64bit. Also have installed MS OS's before just haven't had to try to load drivers at the start of the install. Several posts on the Dell Community forum suggest to load the Intel Matrix Manager at the beginning of the install due to the install failing because the BIOS is set to SATA RAID or ACHI.  Admittedly, I haven't tried the install without pre-loading the mentioned driver, for two reasons. 1) Would like to learn how to do this to ensure no install failures. 2) I am going to load the Vista Premium 64bit (Disk from Dell) on my Vista Premium 32bit desktop and would like to be able to do it during that install.  1. Tried to load the drivers from a USB memory stick with the executable drivers from the 'Drivers and Download' site. I think the executable files are the problem. 2. Inserted the Dell Driver disk, it has several RAID and several ACHI files listed and I'm not sure which ones I should load. It has RAID now. 3. Have searched this and other forums for this issue, remember seeing something about this before, but can't find anything now. 4. Went to Dell support chat, but uhmm, I'm back to where I can get answers. Can I : Copy C:/DELL/ drivers folders and use them? Copy C:/Drivers ? Use a driver backup like WinDriversBackup or DriverMax? Run the driver executable file and save the driver before it runs/installs? Isn't this what’s in the C:/DELL/ drivers folder? Or should I quit being stubborn and run the clean installation without loading the driver. Already have the Driver install order from Dell support and several of the knowledgeable and helpful contributors on this site. Reason I'm doing the clean install is while making a recovery USB file I closed the program before removing the USB memory stick and got a blue screen, caused the bootup to be slow (3 - 5 minutes). Tried system restore which failed when ran from vista but worked when I ran it from the installation DVD. Bootup is still slow. Did a repair with Vista booted. Bootup is still slow, but a little better (+2 minutes).  Original bootup was approx 45 sec. Ran startup repair, found 1 error, repaired it, no change in boot time. Tried several suggestions from forums but nothing improved.  Hope someone can advise, Thanks, Dave     
Which format for drivers to load during clean install of Vista 64bit?