User Guide

ASUS P5VD1-X Motherboard 5-13

5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk

A ﬂoppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows

2000/XP

operating system. on a hard disk drive that is included in a RAID set. You can

create a RAID driver disk using your motherboard support CD.

To create a RAID driver disk:

1. Insert the motherboard support CD into the CD-ROM drive.

2. When the Drivers menu appears, click MakeDisk to creat a VIA 8237 RAID

Driver Disk

Browse the contents of the support CD to locate the driver disk utility and go

to \Drivers\MakeDisk\MakeDisk for the VIA RAID driver disk utility.

3. Insert ﬂoppy disk to ﬂoppy disk drive.

4. Follow succeeding screen information to complete process.

5. Write-protect the ﬂoppy disk to avoid computer virus infection.

To install the RAID driver:

1. During the OS installation, the system prompts you to press the F6 key to

install third-party SCSI or RAID driver.

2. Press <F6> then insert the ﬂoppy disk with RAID driver into the ﬂoppy disk drive.

3. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the installation.

Refer to section “5.2.2 Drivers menu” for details.