Areca ARC-1330 Series, User Manual

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DRIVER INSTALLATION
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After you finish installing device driver, the following steps show
how to make any new independent disks accessible to Windows.
(a). Click “ Start ” = => right-click “ Computer ” and select
“ Manage ”.
(b). Click “ Disk Management ” in the left pane.
(c). Scroll down to the bottom of the middle pane.
Windows will display a list of new drives attached to your
your system with a label such as “Disk 1” or “Disk 2”, etc.
(d). Right-click on the drive you want to partition and then again
to format it
(e). Once it’s formatted, Windows automatically assigns the next
available drive letter to it and then it will appear in Win-
dows Explorer.
4.2.2 Uninstall controller from Windows
To remove the SAS host adapter driver from the Windows system,
follow the instructions below.
1. Ensure that you have closed all applications and are logged in
with administrative rights.
2. Open “Control Panel” and start the “Add/Remove Program”
icon and uninstall and software for the SAS host adapter.
3. Go to “Control Panel” and select “System”. Select the “Hard-
ware” tab and then click the “Device Manager” button. In de-
vice manager, expand the “Storage controllers” section. Right
click on the “ARECA(X86-32-STORPORT) SAS 12G PCI Host
Adapter” and select “Uninstall”.
4. Click Yes to confirm removing the SAS host adapter driver. The
prompt to restart the system will then be displayed.