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2.7 Making a SATA Driver Diskette For SATA Operation in "RAID" Mode If you want to install Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows XP 64-bit OS on your SATA HDDs, you will need to make a SATA driver 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 CDROM 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 / Windows XP 64-bit on your system directly without setting the RAID configuration on your system, or you may start to use "ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility" to set RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD configuration before you install the OS. Before you start to configure the RAID function, you need to check the installation guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please find the document, "Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration", at the following path in the Support CD: .. \ RAID_SETUP_GUIDE \ English.PDF 2.8 SATA Operating in "non-RAID" Mode If you want to install Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows XP 64-bit OS on your SATA HDDs operating in non-RAID mode, you don't need to make a SATA driver diskette before OS installation. Windows 98 SE and Windows ME must be installed by SATA operating in RAID mode, and you don't need to make a SATA driver diskette for these two OS before OS installation. 16 ASRock 939A8X-M Motherboard English

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ASRock
939A8X-M
Motherboard
English
English
English
English
English
2.7
2.7
2.7
2.7
2.7
Making a SA
Making a SA
Making a SA
Making a SA
Making a SATA Driver Disk
A Driver Disk
A Driver Disk
A Driver Disk
A Driver Diskette F
ette F
ette F
ette F
ette For SA
or SA
or SA
or SA
or SATA Operation in
A Operation in
A Operation in
A Operation in
A Operation in
“RAID” Mode
“RAID” Mode
“RAID” Mode
“RAID” Mode
“RAID” Mode
If you want to install Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows XP 64-bit OS on your
SATA HDDs, you will need to make a SATA driver 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.
2.8
2.8
2.8
2.8
2.8
SA
SA
SA
SA
SATA Operating in “non-RAID” Mode
A Operating in “non-RAID” Mode
A Operating in “non-RAID” Mode
A Operating in “non-RAID” Mode
A Operating in “non-RAID” Mode
If you want to install Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows XP 64-bit OS on your
SATA HDDs operating in non-RAID mode, you don’t need to make a SATA driver
diskette before OS installation.
Windows 98 SE and Windows ME must be installed by SATA operating in
RAID mode, and you don’t need to make a SATA driver diskette for these
two OS before OS installation.
Once you have the SATA driver diskette ready, you may start to install Windows 2000
/ Windows XP / Windows XP 64-bit on your system directly without setting the RAID
configuration on your system, or you may start to use “ALi RAID BIOS Setup Utility” to
set RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD configuration before you install the OS. Before you start
to configure the RAID function, you need to check the installation guide in the Support
CD for proper configuration. Please find the document, “Guide to SATA Hard Disks
Installation and RAID Configuration”, at the following path in the Support CD:
.. \ RAID_SETUP_GUIDE \ English.PDF