User Guide

6-2 Chapter 6: Driver Installation
6.1 RAID driver installation
After creating the RAID sets for your server system, you are now ready to install an
operating system to the independent hard disk drive or bootable array. This part provides the
instructions on how to install the RAID controller drivers during OS installation.
6.1.1 Creating a USB flash drive with RAID driver
When installing Windows
®
Server OS, you can load the RAID driver from a USB ash drive.
You can create a USB ash drive with RAID driver in Windows by copying the les from the
support DVD to the USB ash drive.
To copy the RAID driver to a USB ash drive in Windows environment:
1. Place the motherboard support DVD in the optical drive.
2. Connect a USB ash drive to your system.
3. Click on the optical drive to browse the contents of the support DVD.
4. Click Drivers > C23x INTEL RAID > Driver > Windows and then copy the SATA_RAID
driver folder to the USB ash drive.
6.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver
During Windows
®
Server 2008 OS installation
To install the RAID controller driver when installing Windows
®
Server 2008 OS
1. Boot the computer using the Windows
®
Server 2008 OS installation disc. Follow the
screen instructions to start installing Windows Server 2008.
2. When prompted to choose a type of installation, click
Custom (advanced)
.