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Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP With RAID

Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP With RAID
Functions

Functions

If you want to install Windows 2000 / Windows XP OS on your SATA

HDDs with RAID functions, please follow the below steps.

STEP 1: Make a SATA Driver Diskette.

A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your

system.

B. During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11> key,and

then a window for boot devices selection appears. Please select CD-

ROM as the boot device.

C. When you see the message on the screen, “Do you want to generate

Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?”, press <Y>.

D. Then you will see these messages,

Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive.

WARNING! Formatting the floppy diskette will

lose ALL data in it!

Start to format and copy files [YN]?

Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and press <Y>.

E. The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA

drivers into the floppy diskette.

STEP 2: Use “SATA RAID BIOS” 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: .. \ SATA RAID BIOS

STEP 3: Install Windows 2000 / Windows XP OS on your system.

After making a SATA driver diskette and using “SATA RAID BIOS” to set

RAID configuration, you can start to install Windows 2000 / Windows XP

on your system.

After the installation of Windows 2000 / Windows XP OS, if you want to manage

RAID functions, you are allowed to use both “SATA RAID BIOS” and “VIA RAID

Tool” 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: .. \ SATA RAID BIOS and the document in the

support CD, “Guide to VIA RAID Tool”, which is located in the folder at the

following path: .. \ VIA RAID Tool

1. Windows 98 / Windows ME does not support RAID functions.

2. If you want to use “VIA RAID Tool” in Windows environment, please install

SATA drivers from the Support CD again so that “VIA RAID Tool” will be

installed to your system as well.