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C. When you see the message on the screen, “Generate Serial ATA driver
diskette [YN]?”, press <Y>.
D. Then you will see these messages,
Please insert a blank
formatted diskette into floppy
drive A:
press any key to start
Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and press any key.
E. The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA drivers
into the floppy diskette.
STEP 2: Set Up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.
B. Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [RAID].
STEP 3: 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:
.. \Information\Manual\RAID Installation Guide
STEP 4: Install Windows
®
2000 / Windows
®
XP / Windows
®
XP-64bit OS on
your system.
After step1, 2, 3, you can start to install Windows
®
2000 / Windows
®
XP / Windows
®
XP 64-bit OS on your system. At the beginning of Windows
®
setup, press F6 to install
a third-party RAID driver. When prompted, insert the SATA driver diskette containing
the NVIDIA
®
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.
NOTE. If you install Windows
®
2000 / Windows
®
XP / Windows
®
XP 64-bit on IDE
HDDs and want to manage (create, convert, delete, or rebuild) RAID functions
on SATA HDDs, you still need to set up “SATA Operation Mode” to [RAID] in BIOS
first. Then, please set the RAID configuration by using “RAID Utility for Windows
Guide” 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:
.. \Information\Manual\RAID Utility for Windows Guide