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Figure 15

Windows Setup

Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver.

(5) Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation

Now that you have prepared the SATA driver disk and configured BIOS settings, you are ready to install
Windows 2000/XP onto your SATA hard drive with the driver. The following is an example of Windows
XP installation.

Step 1: Restart your system to boot from the Windows 2000/XP Setup disk and press F6

 

as soon as

you see the "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" message (Figure 15). After
pressing F6, there will be a few moments of some files being loaded before you see the next screen.

Figure 16

Windows Setup

S=Specify Additional Device   ENTER=Continue   F3=Exit

Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices
installed in your system, or you have chosen to manually specify an adapter.
Currently, Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices(s)

     <none>

   * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special

 disk  controllers for use with Windows, including those for
 which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device
 manufacturer, press S.

   * If you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage

 device manufacturer, or do not want to specify additional
 mass storage devices for use with Windows, press ENTER.

Step 2:
When a screen similar to that below appears (Figure 16), insert the floppy disk containing the SATA driver
and press S.

Summary of Contents for nForce Series

Page 1: ...1 Installing SATA hard drive s in your computer 2 2 Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup 3 3 Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS 5 4 Making a SATA controller driver disk 8 5...

Page 2: ...es to ensure optimal performance it is recommended that you use two hard drives with identical model and capacity If you do not want to create RAID with the SATA controller you may prepare only one ha...

Page 3: ...bled USB Mouse Support Disabled Serial ATA 2 Internal PHY Enabled AC97 Audio Auto On Chip LAN nVIDIA Auto Onboard Serial ATA Enabled Serial ATA Function RAID Onboard 1394 Enabled Onboard LAN Control E...

Page 4: ...or i to select a device then press to move it up or to move it down the list Press ESC to exit this menu Step 3 Set First Boot Device under the Advanced BIOS Features menu to CDROM to boot from CD RO...

Page 5: ...M od el N am e 1 0 M S T3120026A S 1 1 M S T3120026A S A rra y D isks L o c Disk M od el N am e g Add f D el F6 Back F7 Finish TAB Navigate h i Select ENTER Popup Step 2 The Define a New Array screen...

Page 6: ...inish TAB Navigate h i Select ENTER Popup 1 0 M S T3120026A S 1 1 M S T3120026A S Figure 7 Step 5 Next select the hard drives which you wish to be included in the disk array The Free Disks section dis...

Page 7: ...Set Boot N New Array ENTER Detail Boot I d S ta tu s Ve n d o r A rra y M o d e l N a m e BBS 2 H e a l t h y NV I D I A MIR ROR 111 79G A rra y 2 NV ID IA MIR RO R 111 79G Arra y D e t a il RA ID Mo...

Page 8: ...the Windows setup process First of all you need to copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver CD to a floppy disk The instructions below explain how to copy the driver Step 1...

Page 9: ...ss F to select F nVIDIA Series ATA 2K if you want to install Windows 2000 Then it will take about one minute to copy the SATA driver from the motherboard driver CD to the floppy disk Step 6 Press 0 to...

Page 10: ...files being loaded before you see the next screen Figure 16 Windows Setup S Specify Additional Device ENTER Continue F3 Exit Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices ins...

Page 11: ...ter Continue F3 Exit Setup will load support for the following mass storage device s NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER To specify additional SCSI adapters CD ROM drives or special disk controllers for use with...

Page 12: ...upport disk from a mass storage device manufacturer press S If you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufacturer or do not want to specify additional mass storage device...

Page 13: ...Integrated Peripherals IDE Function Setup Press Enter RAID Config Press Enter OnChip USB V1 1 V2 0 USB Keyboard Support Disabled USB Mouse Support Disabled AC97 Audio Auto Onboard H W LAN Enabled Onb...

Page 14: ...the Free Disks section with the TAB key Select the desired disk and use the RIGHT ARROW key to add it to Array Disks menu Figure 23 Step 4 After all the settings press F7 to complete the configuratio...

Page 15: ...are prompted to select the desired Free Disk s to add to the bootable RAID array Press Finish then NVRAID will start converting the single disk RAID array into a multi disk RAID array in a bootable fo...

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