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Installing WindowsInstalling Windows

Installing Windows

®®

2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista

2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista

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With RAID FunctionsWith RAID Functions

With RAID Functions

If you want to install Windows

2000 / Windows

XP / Windows

XP-64bit /

Windows

Vista

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 “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID configuration.

Before you start to configure the RAID function, you need to check theinstallation

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

2000 / Windows

XP / Windows

XP-64bit /

Windows

Vista

OS on your system.

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

configuration, you can start to installWindows

2000 / Windows

XP / Windows

XP-64bit / Windows

Vista

on your system.

After the installation of Windows

2000 / Windows

XP / Windows

XP-64bit /

Windows

Vista

OS, if you want to manage RAID functions, you are allowed

to use both “RAID Installation Guide” and “VIA RAID Tool 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 sup-

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

path: .. \ VIA RAID Tool Information