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2.16.1 Installing Windows

2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID

Functions

If you want to install Windows

2000 / Windows

XP / Windows

XP 64-bit on your

SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps.
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A.

Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY

Advanced screen

IDE Configuration.

Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [RAID].

STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette.
Please make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette by following section 2.15.1 step 2 on
page 35.
STEP 3: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID configuration.
Before you start to configure RAID function, you need to check the RAID installation
guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the BIOS RAID
installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide

STEP 4: Install Windows

2000 / XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.

After step1, 2, 3, you can start to install Windows

2000 / Windows

XP / Windows

XP 64-bit OS on your system. At the beginning of Windows

setup, press F6 to install

a third-party RAID driver. When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII driver diskette
containing the NVIDIA

RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the drivers will be

presented. Select the drivers to install. The drivers are as below:

NOTE. If you install Windows

2000 / Windows

XP / Windows

XP 64-bit on IDE

HDDs and want to manage (create, convert, delete, or rebuild) RAID functions
on SATA / SATAII HDDs, you still need to set up “SATA Operation Mode” to [RAID]
in BIOS first. Then, please set the RAID configuration by using the Windows RAID
installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide

NOTE. Currently, the RAID driver for Windows

2000 / Windows

XP / Windows

XP 64-bit OS

is not ready yet. As long as we get the Windows

2000 / Windows

XP / Windows

XP 64-bit RAID driver, we will update it to our website in the future.
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Please select A and B for Windows

2000 / XP / XP 64-bit in RAID mode. (There are

two RAID drivers needed for RAID mode, you have to select them separately. Please
specify the first RAID driver and then specify again for the second one.)

A. NVIDIA RAID Driver (required)

B. NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required)

Before installing Windows

2000 to your system, your Windows

2000optical disk

is supposed to include SP4. If there is no SP4 included in your disk, please visit the
below website for proper procedures of making a SP4 disk:
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/spdeploy.

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