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After the installation of Windows
®
XP / XP-64bit OS, if you want to manage RAID func-
tions, you are allowed to use both “RAID Installation Guide” and “Intel Rapid Storage Infor-
mation” for RAID confi guration. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, “Guide to
SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Confi guration”, which is located in the folder at the
following path:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
and the document in the support CD, “Guide
to Intel Rapid Storage”, which is located in the folder at the following path:
.. \ Intel Rapid Storage Information
2.17.2 Setting Up a “RAID Ready” System
You can also set up a “RAID Ready” system with a single SATA / SATAII / SATA3
hard disk. A “RAID Ready” system can be seamlessly upgraded to RAID 0, RAID
1 or RAID 5 at a later date by using RAID migration feature of Intel Rapid Storage.
The following steps outline how to build an Intel “RAID Ready” system.
1. Assemble the system and attach a single SATA / SATAII / SATA3 hard drive.
2. Set up system UEFI as step 1 of page 38. When done, exit Setup.
3. Make a SATA / SATAII / SATA3 driver diskette as step 2 of page 38. Begin
Windows
®
setup by booting from the installation CD.
4. At the beginning of Windows
®
setup, press F6 to install a third-party RAID driver.
When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII / SATA3 driver diskette containing the
Intel
®
RAID driver. After reading the fl oppy disk, the driver will be presented.
Select the driver to install according to the mode you choose and the OS you
install.
STEP 3: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID confi guration.
Before you start to confi gure the RAID function, you need to check the
installation guide in the Support CD for proper confi guration. Please refer to the
document in the Support CD, “Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID
Confi guration”, which is located in the folder at the following path:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
STEP 4: Install Windows
®
XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.
After making a SATA / SATAII / SATA3 driver diskette and using “RAID Installation
Guide” to set RAID confi guration, you can start to install Windows
®
XP / XP 64-
bit on your system. At the beginning of Windows setup, press F6 to install a third-
party RAID driver. When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII / SATA3 driver diskette
containing the Intel
®
RAID driver. After reading the fl oppy disk, the driver will be
presented. Select the driver to install according to the mode you choose and the OS
you install.
If you want to use “Intel Rapid Storage” in Windows
®
environment, install
“SATAII driver” from the Support CD again so that “Intel Rapid Storage”
will be installed to your system as well.
