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Installation of Windows 2000 / Windows XP - windows 7

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3. Installation of Windows 2000 / Windows XP If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your system while you only have SATA HDDs on your system, you will need to make an SATA driver diskette (see page 2 to page 3 for details) before you start the OS installation. If you prefer not to use RAID function, you may start to install Windows 2000 / Windows XP once you have the SATA driver diskette ready. If you want to use RAID function, you need to set the RAID configuration (see page 4 to page 19) before you install Windows 2000 / Windows XP. For the installation of the SATA drivers while installing Windows 2000 or Windows XP, please follow the instruction below. STEP 1: Insert Windows 2000 or Windows XP CD into the optical drive. STEP 2: Remove the floppy diskette, and reboot the system. When you start the installation, press once you see the message at the bottom of the screen, "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver". Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver . . . 20

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3.
Installation of Windows 2000 / Windows XP
If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your system while you only have
SATA HDDs on your system, you will need to make an SATA driver diskette
(see page 2
to page 3 for details) before you start the OS installation. If you prefer not to use RAID
function, you may start to install Windows 2000 / Windows XP once you have the SATA
driver diskette ready. If you want to use RAID function, you need to set the RAID
configuration
(see page 4 to page 19) before you install Windows 2000 / Windows XP.
For the installation of the SATA drivers while installing Windows 2000 or
Windows XP, please follow the instruction below.
STEP 1:
Insert Windows 2000 or Windows XP CD into the optical drive.
STEP 2:
Remove the floppy diskette, and reboot the system. When you
start the installation, press <F6> once you see the message at
the bottom of the screen, “Press F6 if you need to install a third
party SCSI or RAID driver”.
Press
F6
if
you
need
to
install
a
third
party
SCSI
or
RAID
driver . . .
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