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Continue with the following steps to make any additional volume 

sets or pass-through disks accessible to Windows. This proce-

dure assumes that the SATA RAID controller hardware, driver, 

and Windows are installed and operational in your system.

1. Partition and format the new volume set or disks using Disk 

Administrator:

a. Choose Administrative Tools from the Start menu.

b. Choose Computer Management from the Administrative Tools 

menu.

c. Select Storage.

d. Select Disk Management.

2. Follow the on-screen prompts to write a signature to the 

drive.

3. Right click on the disk drive and select “Create Volume” from 

the menu.

4. Follow the on-screen prompts to create a volume set and to 

give a disk drive letter.

In this scenario, you are installing the controller in an existing 

Windows system. To install the driver:

1. Follow the instructions in Chapter 2, the Hardware Installa-

tion Chapter, to install the controller and connect the disk drives 

or enclosure.

2. Start the system and then press Tab+F6 to enter the Mc-

BIOS-based configuration utility. Use the configuration utility 

to create the raid set and volume set. For details, see Chapter 

3, McBIOS RAID Manager. Once a volume set is created and 

configured, continue with installation of the driver.

3. Re-Boot Windows and the OS will recognize the SATA RAID 

Controller and launche the “Found New Hardware Wizard”,