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2.11.2 Installing Windows 2.11.2 Installing Windows
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If you want to install Windows
®
Vista
TM
or Vista
TM
64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs
with RAID functions, please follow below steps.
STEP 1: Set up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.
B. If you plan to install Windows ® Vista TM / Vista TM 64-bit on VIA ® SATA ports with
RAID functions, please set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [RAID]. If you
plan to install Windows ® Vista TM / Vista TM 64-bit on JMicron ® SATAII ports with
RAID functions, please set the “PCIE-SATAII Operation Mode” option to [RAID].
STEP 2: Make a SATAII driver diskette. (For JMicron ® SATAII ports in RAID
mode only.)
If you set “PCIE-SATAII Operation Mode” to [RAID] mode, and plan to install
Windows
®
Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit on JMicron
®
SATAII HDDs, please refer to step 2
on page 21 for detailed procedures of making a SATAII driver diskette. Otherwise,
please skip this step.
STEP 3: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID configuration.
Before you start to configure RAID function, you need to check the RAID installation
guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the BIOS RAID
installation guide of the document in the following path in the Support CD:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
STEP 4: Install Windows ® Vista TM / Vista TM 64-bit OS on your system.
Insert the Windows ® Vista TM / Vista TM 64-bit optical disk into the optical drive to boot
your system, and follow the instruction to install Windows ® Vista TM / Vista TM 64-bit
OS on your system.
If you plan to install Windows
®
Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit on VIA
®
SATA HDDs, when you
see “Where do you want to install Windows?” page, please insert the ASRock
Support CD into your optical drive, and click the “Load Driver” button on the left on the
bottom to load the VIA
®
RAID drivers. VIA
®
RAID drivers are in the following path in
our Support CD:
.. \ I386 \ NT5 (For Windows
®
Vista
TM
OS)
.. \ AMD64 \ 2003x64 (For Windows ® Vista TM 64-bit OS)
If you plan to install Windows ® Vista TM / Vista TM 64-bit on JMicron ® SATAII HDDs,
when you see “Where do you want to install Windows?” page, please click the
“Load Driver” button on the left on the bottom to load the JMicron ® RAID drivers from
the SATAII driver diskette you just made.
After that, please insert Windows ® Vista TM / Vista TM 64-bit optical disk into the optical
drive again to continue the installation.