ASRock K8Upgrade-NF3 Quick Installation Guide - Page 15

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 BIOS Setting Utility After step1, 2, 3, you can start to install Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows XP 64-bit. NOTE. If you install Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows XP 64-bit on IDE HDDs and want to manage (create, convert, delete, or rebuild) RAID functions, you still need to set up "SATA Operation Mode" to [RAID] first. Then, please set the RAID configuration by using "RAID Utility for Windows" in Windows environment. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to nVidia RAID Utility for Windows", which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ RAID Utility for Windows 2.9 Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows XP 64-bit Without RAID Functions If you just want to install Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows XP 64-bit on your SATA HDDs without RAID functions, you don't have to make a SATA driver diskette. Besides, there is no need for you to change the BIOS setting. You can start to install Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows XP 64-bit on your system directly. 2.10 Installing Windows 98 SE / Windows ME on SATA HDD If you want to install Windows 98 SE / Windows ME on SATA HDD, it must be installed on SATA 1 in order to finish the OS installation process. After finishing the installation of Windows 98 SE / Windows ME, please install Windows SE 98 / Windows ME registry patch file provided in the support CD, which is located in the folder at the following patch: .. \ Nvidia SATA patch for Win98/ME Then the SATA HDD can be used in SATA 1 or SATA 2 port. Windows 98 SE / Windows ME does not support RAID function. 15 ASRock K8Upgrade-NF3 Motherboard English