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2.19.4 Installing Windows

Vista

/ Vista

64-bit With

RAID Functions

If you want to install Windows

Vista

/ Vista

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.

B. Set “ATA/IDE Configuration” to [Enhanced], and then in the option “Configure
SATAII as”, please set the option to [RAID].
STEP 2: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID configuration.
Before you start to configure the RAID function, you need to check the installation
guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the document in
the Support CD, “Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration”,
which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ RAID Installation Guide
STEP 3: Install Windows

Vista

/ Vista

64-bit OS on your system.

Insert the Windows

Vista

/ Vista

64-bit optical disk into the optical drive to boot

your system, and follow the instruction to install Windows

Vista

/ Vista

64-bit

OS on your system. When you see “Where do you want to install Windows?” page,
please insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive, and click the “Load
Driver” button on the left on the bottom to load the Intel

RAID drivers. Intel

RAID

drivers are in the following path in our Support CD:
.. \ I386 \ Vista

(For Windows

Vista

OS)

.. \ AMD64 \ Vista64

(For Windows

Vista

64-bit OS)

After that, please insert Windows

Vista

/ Vista

64-bit optical disk into the optical

drive again to continue the installation.

After the installation of Windows

Vista

/ Vista

64-bit OS, if you want to manage RAID

functions, you are allowed to use both “RAID Installation Guide” and “Intel Matrix Storage
Manager Information” for RAID configuration. Please refer to the document in the Support
CD, “Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration”, which is located in the
folder at the following path: .. \ RAID Installation Guide and the document in the support
CD, “Guide to Intel Matrix Storage Manager”, which is located in the folder at the following
path: .. \ Intel Matrix Storage Manager Information

4. Once the migration is complete, reboot the system. If you migrated to a RAID 0
volume, use Disk Management from within Windows

in order to partition and

format the empty space created when the two hard drive capacities are
combined. You may also use third-party software to extend any existing
partitions within the RAID volume.

1. If you want to use “Intel Matrix Storage Manager” in Windows

environment,

please install SATA / SATAII drivers from the Support CD again so that “Intel
Matrix Storage Manager” will be installed to your system as well.
2. If you install Windows

Vista

/ Vista

64-bit OS, please do not create RAID 0

and RAID 5 or RAID 1 and RAID 5 at the same time under BIOS environment. It
is recommended to create RAID array one by one.