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2.3.4 Installing Windows
®
Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit With
RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows
®
Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit on your SATA
/ SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps.
STEP 1: Set up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY
Advanced screen
IDE
Configuration.
B. Set “SATAII Configuration” to [Enhanced], and then in the
option “Configure SATAII as”, please set the option to [RAID].
STEP 2: 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:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
STEP 3: Install Windows
®
Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit OS on your
system.
Insert the Windows
®
Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit optical disk into the
optical drive to boot your system, and follow the instruction to
install Windows
®
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 Intel
®
RAID drivers. Intel
®
RAID drivers are in
the following path in our Support CD:
.. \ I386
(For Windows
®
Vista
TM
OS)
.. \ AMD64
(For Windows
®
Vista
TM
64-bit OS)
After that, please insert Windows
®
Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit
optical disk into the optical drive again to continue the
installation.
After the installation of Windows
®
Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit OS, if you want to manage RAID
functions, you are allowed to use both “RAID Installation Guide” and “Intel Matrix Storage
Manager Information” for RAID 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:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
and the document in the
support CD, “Guide to Intel Matrix Storage Manager”, which is located in the folder at the
following path:
.. \ Intel Matrix Storage Manager Information
