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STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY
Advanced screen
Storage Configuration.
B. Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [RAID].
STEP 2: 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 part of the document in the following path in the
Support CD:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
STEP 3: Install Windows
®
7 / 7 64-bit / Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit OS on your
system.
Insert the Windows
®
7 / 7 64-bit / Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit optical disk into the optical
drive to boot your system, and follow the instruction to install Windows
®
7 / 7 64-bit
/ Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit OS on your system. 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 NVIDIA
®
RAID
drivers. NVIDIA
®
RAID drivers are in the following path in our Support CD:
.. \ I386
(For Windows
®
7 / Vista
TM
OS)
.. \ AMD64
(For Windows
®
7 64-bit / Vista
TM
64-bit OS)
After that, please insert Windows
®
7 / 7 64-bit / Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit optical disk into
the optical drive again to continue the installation.
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®
®
®
®
7 / 7 64-bit / Vista
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TM
TM
TM
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TM
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/
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Vista
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TM
TM
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TM
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64-bit With RAID Functions
64-bit With RAID Functions
64-bit With RAID Functions
64-bit With RAID Functions
64-bit With RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows
®
7 / 7 64-bit / Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit OS on your
SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below procedures
according to the OS you install.
STEP 1: Set up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY
Advanced screen Storage Configuration.
B. Set the option “SATA Operation Mode” to [IDE].
STEP 2: Install Windows
®
7 / 7 64-bit / Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit OS on your
system.
Using SATA / SATAII HDDs in IDE Mode
RAID mode is not supported under Windows
®
XP / XP 64-bit OS.