ASRock 775V88 RAID Installation Guide - Page 3

Making An SATA Driver Diskette - + driver

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1.2 Making An SATA Driver Diskette If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your SATA HDDs, you will need to make an SATA driver diskette before you start the OS installation. 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 "VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS" to set RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD configuration before you install the OS. You may also set the RAID configuration by using "VIA RAID Tool" in Windows environment. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to VIA RAID Tool", which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ VIA RAID Tool 3

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1.2
Making An SATA Driver Diskette
If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your
SATA HDDs, you will need to make an SATA driver diskette before
you start the OS installation.
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 “VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS” to set RAID 0 / RAID 1
/ JBOD configuration before you install the OS. You may also set
the RAID configuration by using “VIA RAID Tool” in Windows
environment. Please refer to the document in the Support CD,
“Guide to VIA RAID Tool”, which is located in the folder at the
following path:
.. \ VIA RAID Tool