ASRock 960GC-GS FX RAID Installation Guide - Page 23

Installing OS on a HDD Larger Than 2TB

Get ASRock 960GC-GS FX PDF manuals and user guides View all ASRock 960GC-GS FX manuals
Add to My Manuals
Save this manual to your list of manuals

Page 23 highlights

3. Installing OS on a HDD Larger Than 2TB This motherboard is adopting UEFI BIOS that allows Windows® OS to be installed on a large size HDD (>2TB). Please follow below procedure to install the operating system. 1. Please make sure to use Windows® VistaTM 64-bit (with SP1 or above), Windows® 7 64-bit or Windows® 8 64-bit. 2. Press or at system POST. Set AHCI Mode in UEFI Setup Utility > Advanced > Storage Configuration > SATA Mode. 3. Choose the item "UEFI:xxx" to boot in UEFI Setup Utility > Boot > Boot Option #1. ("xxx" is the device which contains your Windows® installation files. Normally it is an optical drive.) You can also press to launch boot menu at system POST and choose the item "UEFI:xxx" to boot. 4. Start Windows® installation. 23

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
23
3.
Installing OS on a HDD Larger Than 2TB
This motherboard is adopting UEFI BIOS that allows Windows
®
OS to be installed on a large size HDD (>2TB). Please
follow below procedure to install the operating system.
1.
Please make sure to use
Windows
®
Vista
TM
64-bit (with SP1 or above)
,
Windows
®
7 64-bit
or
Windows
®
8
64-bit
.
2.
Press <F2> or <Delete> at system POST. Set
AHCI Mode
in UEFI Setup Utility > Advanced > Storage
Configuration > SATA Mode.
3.
Choose the item
“UEFI:xxx“
to boot in UEFI Setup Utility > Boot > Boot Option #1. (“xxx” is the device which
contains your Windows
®
installation files. Normally it is an optical drive.) You can also press <F11> to launch
boot menu at system POST and choose the item
“UEFI:xxx“
to boot.
4.
Start Windows
®
installation.