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Making An SATA Driver Diskette - windows 7

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1.2 Making An SATA Driver Diskette If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on SATA HDDs, you will need to make an SATA driver diskette before you start the OS installation. How to make an SATA driver diskette? STEP 1: Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. (Do NOT insert any floppy diskette into the floppy drive at this moment!) STEP 2: During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press key, and then a window for boot devices selection appears. Please select CD-ROM as the boot device. STEP 3: When you see the message on the screen, "Do you want to generate Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?", press . STEP 4: 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 . STEP 5: The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA drivers into the floppy diskette. Once you have the SATA driver diskette ready, you may start to install Windows 2000 / Windows XP on your system directly without setting the RAID configuration on your system, or you may start to use "SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility" to set RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD configuration before you install the OS. You may also set the RAID configuration by using "SiS RAID Utility for Windows" in Windows environment. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to SiS RAID Utility for Windows", which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ RAID Utility for Windows 3

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1.2
Making An SATA Driver Diskette
If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on SATA HDDs, you will
need to make an SATA driver diskette before you start the OS installation.
How to make an SATA driver diskette?
STEP 1:
Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your
system. (Do NOT insert any floppy diskette into the floppy drive at
this moment!)
STEP 2:
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.
STEP 3:
When you see the message on the screen, “Do you want to
generate Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?”, press <Y>.
STEP 4:
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>.
STEP 5:
The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA
drivers into the floppy diskette.
Once you have the SATA driver diskette ready, you may start to install
Windows 2000 / Windows XP on your system directly without setting the
RAID configuration on your system, or you may start to use “SiS RAID BIOS
Setting Utility” to set RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD configuration before you install
the OS. You may also set the RAID configuration by using “SiS RAID Utility
for Windows” in Windows environment. Please refer to the document in the
Support CD, “Guide to SiS RAID Utility for Windows”, which is located in the
folder at the following path:
.. \ RAID Utility for Windows