ASROCK 775Twins-PT890, User Manual

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2.13 Installing Windows Installing Windows
Installing Windows Installing Windows
Installing Windows
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2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista
TM TM TM TM TM
With RAID Functions With RAID Functions
With RAID Functions With RAID Functions
With RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows ® 2000 / Windows ® XP / Windows ® XP-64bit OS 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.
WARNING! 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: Use “RAID Installation Guide” 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 Installation Guide
STEP 3: Install Windows ® 2000 / Windows ® XP / Windows ® XP-64bit OS on
your system.
After making a SATA driver diskette and using “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID
configuration, you can start to install Windows ® 2000 / Windows ® XP / Windows ®
XP-64bit on your system. At the beginning of Windows ® setup, press F6 to install
a third-party SCSI or RAID driver. When prompted, insert a floppy disk containing
the VIA ® RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be presented.
Select the driver to install according to the mode you choose and the OS you
install.
The installation procedures for Windows Vista TM are subject to change.