2.11 Installing Windows
2.11
2.11
Installing Windows
Installing Windows
Installing Windows
2.11
2.11
Installing Windows
With RAID Functions
With RAID Functions
With RAID Functions
With RAID Functions
With RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows
TM
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 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: .. \ RAID Installation Guide
STEP 3: Install Windows
Windows
®
Vista
After making a SATA driver diskette and using "RAID Installation Guide" to set RAID
configuration, you can start to installWindows
TM
®
64bit / Windows
Vista
on your system.
After the installation of Windows
®
TM
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
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