Gigabyte GA-F2A58M-H User Manual - Page 31

2. The selection bar will move to the Disks section on the right of the screen. Select the hard drives to be included in the RAID array. Use the up or down arrow key to select a hard drive and press . The selected hard drive will be shown in green. To use all of the hard drives, simply press to select all. Then press and the selection bar will move to the User Input section on the left bottom of the screen. (Figure 10) 3. First, select a RAID mode and press . The selections available depend on the number of the hard drives being installed. Then follow the on-screen instructions to specify the array size. You can select All available space to use the maximum size allowed or use the up or down arrow key to adjust the size and press . 4. Select a caching mode. Options include Read/Write, Read Only, and None. Then press to proceed. 5. Finally, a message which says "Confirm Creation of Array" will appear. Press to confirm or to return to the previous screen. To exit the RAID BIOS utility, press and then press to confirm. Deleting an Array The Delete Array(s) menu option allows for deletion of disk array assignments. 1. Select Delete Array(s) in the Main Menu and press . 2. In the Arrays section, press the key on the array you want to delete and then press to proceed. 3. When prompted to confirm, press to continue the deletion or to cancel. Deleting an existing disk array could result in loss of data. Record all array information including the array type, the disk members, and stripe block size in case you wish to undo a deletion. Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install the operating system. A. Installing the Operating System (The following instructions use Windows 8.1 as the example operating system.) Step 1: You need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver during the OS installation. Use an alternative system to copy the SATA RAID/AHCI driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive. Copy the Hw8_A88 folder under BootDrv in the driver disk. Step 2: Boot from the Windows 8.1 setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When the screen requesting you to load the driver appears, select Browse. Step 3: Then browse to the USB flash drive and select the location of the driver. The locations of the drivers are as follows: RAID driver for Windows 8.1 32-bit: Hw8_A88\RAID\x86 RAID driver for Windows 8.1 64-bit: Hw8_A88\RAID\x64 AHCI driver for Windows 8.1 32-bit: Hw8_A88\AHCI\W8 AHCI driver for Windows 8.1 64-bit: Hw8_A88\AHCI\W864A For Windows 7, browse to the Hw7_A88 folder. Step 4: Select AMD-RAID Controller and click Next to load the driver and continue the OS installation. After the driver installation, you can proceed with the Windows XP installation. B. Installing Windows XP (32-bit) Before installing Windows XP, connect a USB floppy disk drive to your computer first because you need to install the SATA RAID driver from a floppy disk that contains the driver during the OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive(s) may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First, copy the driver from the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. Refer to the methods below. Method A: •• For the AMD A58, copy all files in the \BootDrv\Hxp_A88 folder to your floppy disk. - 31 -