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2.22  Installing Windows

 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista

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/ Vista

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64-bit / XP /                                

         XP 64-bit Without RAID Functions

If you want to install Windows

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 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista

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 / Vista

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 64-bit / XP / XP 64-

bit OS on your SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 HDDs without RAID functions, please follow 

below procedures according to the OS you install.

2.22.1  Installing Windows

 XP / XP 64-bit Without RAID Functions

If you want to install Windows

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 XP / XP 64-bit OS on your SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 

HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below steps.

A. Enter UEFI SETUP UTILITY        Advanced screen        Storage Confi guration.

B. Set the option “SATA Mode” to [IDE]. (For SATA2_0 to SATA2_3, SATA3_0 and

    SATA3_1 ports.) 

    Set the option “ASMedia SATA3 Operation Mode” to [IDE]. (For SATA3_A0 port.)

AHCI mode is not supported under Windows

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 XP / XP 64-bit.

After the installation of Windows

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 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista

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 / Vista

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 64-bit OS, if you want to 

manage RAID functions, you are allowed to use both “RAID Installation Guide” and “Intel 

Rapid Storage Information” for RAID confi guration. Please refer to the document in the 

Support CD, “Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Confi guration”, which is lo-

cated in the folder at the following path: .. \ RAID Installation Guide and the document in 

the support CD, “Guide to Intel Rapid Storage”, which is located in the folder at the follow-

ing path: .. \ Intel Rapid Storage Information

 

  

If you want to make the USB fl ash driver disk, please copy above 

 Intel

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 RAID drivers from our Support CD to your USB fl ash, and  

 

then load drivers from the USB fl ash disk.