Creating A Raid Driver Disk - Asus DELUXE P5LD2 User Manual

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Creating a RAID driver disk

A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows
2000/XP operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in a RAID
set. You can create a RAID driver disk in DOS (using the Makedisk
application in the support CD) or in Windows
To create a RAID driver disk in DOS environment:
1. Place the motherboard support CD in the optical drive.
2. Restart your computer, then enter the BIOS Setup.
3. Select the optical drive as the first boot priority to boot from the
support CD. Save your changes, then exit the BIOS Setup.
4. Restart your computer.
5. Press any key when prompted to boot from CD.
Loading FreeDOS FAT KERNEL GO!
Press any key to boot from CDROM...
The Makedisk menu appears.
1) Make ICH7 RAID/AHCI 32bits Driver Disk
2) Make ICH7 RAID/AHCI 64bits Driver Disk
3) Make ITE8211 32bits Driver Disk
4) Make ITE8211 64bits Driver Disk
5) Make Sil3132 RAID 32bits Driver Disk
6) Make Sil3132 SATA 32bits Driver Disk
7) Format floppy disk
8) FreeDOS command prompt
Please choose 1 ~ 8
6. Place a blank, high-density floppy disk to the floppy disk drive, then
press <7>. The following message displays on screen.
Insert new diskette for drive B:\
and press ENTER when ready...
7. Press <Enter> to format the floppy disk.
8. When finished, select the type of RAID driver disk you want to create
by typing the number preceding the option, then press <Enter>. For
example, if you want to create an ICH7R SATA RAID driver disk, press
<1>. The following message appears on screen.
Please insert your formatted floppy to drive B:\
Press a key to continue.
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