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2.13 Driver Installation Guide
To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your optical
drive rst. Then, the drivers compatible to your system can be auto-detected and
listed on the support CD driver page. Please follow the order from up to bottom side
to install those required drivers. Therefore, the drivers you install can work properly.
2.14 Installing Windows
®
7 / 7 64-bit / Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit / XP /
XP 64-bit With RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows
®
7 / 7 64-bit / Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit / XP / XP 64-bit
on a RAID disk composed of 2 or more SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions,
please follow below procedures according to the OS you install.
2.14.1 Installing Windows
®
XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows
®
XP / XP 64-bit on a RAID disk composed of 2 or
more SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps.
STEP 1: Set up UEFI.
A.
Enter UEFI SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen Storage
Con guration.
B.
Set the “SATA Mode” option to [RAID].
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII Driver Diskette. (Please use USB fl oppy or
fl oppy disk.)
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, “Generate Serial ATA driver
diskette [YN]?”, press <Y>.
D.
Then you will see these messages,
Please insert a diskette into the fl oppy drive.
WARNING! Formatting the fl oppy diskette will
lose ALL data in it!
Start to format and copy fi les [YN]?
Please insert a oppy diskette into the oppy drive, and press any key.
E.
The system will start to format the oppy diskette and copy SATA / SATAII
drivers into the oppy diskette.
