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Windows® 98/ME Installation Installing the ATA RAID controller while installing Windows 98/ME Materials required: • 3ware CD-ROM (You will be required to create a 3ware Windows Driver Installation Diskette from the files located on the 3ware CD-ROM. Please refer to the "Readme.txt" file on the 3ware CD-ROM for directions.) Create disk arrays Refer to the 3ware Hardware Installation and 3ware Disk Array Configuration Utility chapters. Boot the system from the Windows 98/ME diskette 1 Insert Windows 98/ME boot disk into the floppy drive. 2 Restart your computer. 3 From the Windows 98 or ME Startup Menu, choose 1. Start computer with CD-ROM support. Partition the boot device using fdisk 1 If your disks have not been partitioned you will get a message like "Windows has detected that drive C does not contain a valid FAT or FAT32 partition". From the MS-DOS command prompt, run fdisk to create a partition. A:\> fdisk 2 When asked to enable large disk support indicate "yes" by typing Y. 3 Under FDISK Options select option 1, Create a DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive. 4 Under Create a DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive select option 1, Create a Primary DOS partition. www.3ware.com 85

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Windows® 98/ME Installation
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Installing the ATA RAID controller while
installing Windows 98/ME
Materials required:
3ware CD-ROM
(You will be required to create a 3ware Windows Driver Installa-
tion Diskette from the files located on the 3ware CD-ROM.
Please refer to the "Readme.txt" file on the 3ware CD-ROM for
directions.)
Create disk arrays
Refer to the
3ware Hardware Installation
and
3ware Disk Array
Configuration Utility
chapters.
Boot the system from the Windows 98/ME diskette
1
Insert Windows 98/ME boot disk into the floppy drive.
2
Restart your computer.
3
From the Windows 98 or ME
Startup Menu
, choose
1. Start
computer with CD-ROM support.
Partition the boot device using
fdisk
1
If your disks have not been partitioned you will get a message
like “Windows has detected that drive C does not contain a valid
FAT or FAT32 partition”. From the MS-DOS command prompt,
run
fdisk
to create a partition.
A:\> fdisk
2
When asked to enable large disk support indicate “yes” by typ-
ing
Y
.
3
Under
FDISK
Options
select option 1,
Create a DOS partition
or Logical DOS Drive.
4
Under
Create a DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive
select
option 1,
Create a Primary DOS partition.