ASRock P45R2000-WiFi Quick Installation Guide - Page 35
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette.
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ATAII device hield 2.13 Installing Windows® XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit With RAID Functions (For P45R2000-WiFi / P45R2000 Only) If you want to install Windows® XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please refer to the document at the following path in the Support CD for detailed procedures: ..\ RAID Installation Guide 2.14 Installing Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit Without RAID Functions If you want to install Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS on your SATA / SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below procedures according to the OS you install. Since Windows® 2000 RAID / AHCI driver is not provided by the chipset vendor, RAID / AHCI functions are not supported under Windows® 2000. 2.14.1 Installing Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit Without RAID Functions If you want to install Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit OS on your SATA / SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below steps. Using SATA / SATAII HDDs and eSATAII devices with NCQ function STEP 1: Set Up BIOS. A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. B. Set "SATAII Configuration" to [Enhanced], and then in the option "Configure SATAII as", please set the option to [AHCI]. STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette. A. Insert the Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. B. 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. C. When you see the message on the screen, "Do you want to generate Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?", press . 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 . 35 ASRock P45R2000-WiFi / P45R2000 / P45TurboTwins2000 Motherboard English