Setting up a new computer today, I came across an annoying problem which none of my team had seen before. Luckily we managed to find a solution.

If you’re setting up a new PC with a non-standard RAID card (meaning you’ll need to install the drivers manually using the “Load Driver” function and your motherboard/RAID Card install disk during the Windows setup) you may come across error 0x80300001 after formatting a new partition for the install.

The solution is quite an odd one.

– Install your RAID Driver as per normal using the installation disk from the manufacturer
– Before switching disks back to the Windows installation disk, create and format the partition with the RAID Driver disk inserted. If this step isn’t completed you’ll get a whole different error about the drive being formatted in the wrong format.
– At this point, if you’re wanting to go forward you’ll encounter the error 0x80300001.
– Switch disks back to the Windows installation disk and click “Refresh”.
– The error should now disappear and you should be able to progress through the rest of the install as normal.

If this worked for you, I’d love for you to write a quick comment to let me know!