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2.10 Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP With RAID Functions If you want to install W indows 2000 or W indows XP on your SATA HDDs with RAID functions, please follow the below steps. STEP 1: Make a SATA Driver Diskette. A. Insert the ASRock 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. W A RNING! 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 . E. The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA drivers into the floppy diskette. STEP 2: Set Up BIOS. A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY ¡÷Advanced screen ¡÷IDE Configuration. B. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option from [non-RAID] to [RAID]. STEP 3: Use "RAID BIOS Setting Utility" to set RAID configuration. Before you start to configure the RAID function, you need to check the installation guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration", which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ RAID BIOS Setting Utility After step1, 2, 3, you can start to install Windows 2000 / Windows XP. NOTE. If you install Windows 2000 / Windows XP on IDE HDDs and want to manage (create, convert, delete, or rebuild) RAID functions, you still need to set up "RAID Operation Mode" to [RAID] first. Then, please set the RAID configura -tion by using "RAID Utility for Windows" in Windows environment. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to nVidia RAID Utility for Windows", which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ RAID Utility for Windows 20

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2.10 Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP With RAID
Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP With RAID
Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP With RAID
Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP With RAID
Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP With RAID
Functions
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If you want to install W indows 2000 or W indows XP on your SATA HDDs with RAID
functions, please follow the below steps.
STEP 1: Make a SATA Driver Diskette.
A.
Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system.
B.
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.
C.
When you see the message on the screen, “Do you want to generate
Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?”, press <Y>.
D.
Then you will see these messages,
Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive.
W A RNING! 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>.
E.
The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA drivers
into the floppy diskette.
STEP 2: Set Up BIOS.
A.
Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY¡÷Advanced screen¡÷IDE Configuration.
B.
Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option from [non-RAID] to [RAID].
STEP 3: Use “RAID BIOS Setting Utility” to set RAID configuration.
Before you start to configure the RAID function, you need to
check the installation guide in the Support CD for proper configuration.
Please refer to the document in the Support CD, “Guide to SATA Hard
Disks Installation and RAID Configuration”, which is located in the folder
at the following path:
.. \ RAID BIOS Setting Utility
After step1, 2, 3, you can start to install Windows 2000 / Windows XP.
NOTE. If you install Windows 2000 / Windows XP on IDE HDDs and want to manage
(create, convert, delete, or rebuild) RAID functions, you still need to set up
“RAID Operation Mode” to [RAID] first. Then, please set the RAID configura
-tion by using “RAID Utility for Windows” in Windows environment.
Please refer to the document in the Support CD, “Guide to nVidia RAID Utility
for Windows”, which is located in the folder at the following path:
.. \ RAID Utility for Windows