ASRock K7NF2-RAID Quick Installation Guide - Page 15

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 "SATA 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 2.8 Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP Without RAID Functions If you just want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your SATA HDDs without RAID functions, you don't have to make a SATA driver diskette. Besides, there is no need for you to change the BIOS setting. You can start to install Windows 2000 or windows XP on your system directly. 2.9 Installing Windows 98 SE / Windows ME on SATA HDD If you want to install Windows 98 SE / Windows ME on SATA HDD, it must be installed on SATA 1 in order to finish the OS installation process. After finishing the installation of Windows 98 SE / Windows ME, please install Windows SE 98 / Windows ME registry patch file provided in the support CD, which is located in the folder at the following patch: .. \ Nvidia SATA patch for Win98/ME Then the SATA HDD can be used in SATA 1 or SATA 2 port. Windows 98 SE / Windows ME does not support RAID function. 15 ASRock K7NF2-RAID Motherboard English