Guide To Sata Hard Disks Installation; Serial Ata (Sata) Hard Disks Installation; Making An Sata Driver Diskette - ASROCK 775TWINS-HDTV Manual To Installation And Configuration

1. Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation

1.1

Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation

This motherboard adopts ALi M5283 IDE controller chip that supports Serial ATA
(SATA) hard disks. You may install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal
storage devices. This section will guide you to install the SATA hard disks.
STEP 1: Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays of your
STEP 2: Connect one end of the SATA data cable to the
STEP 3: Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to the
STEP 4: Connect one end of the second SATA data cable to the
STEP 5: Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to the
STEP 6: Connect the SATA power cable to the SATA hard disk.
1.2

Making An SATA Driver Diskette

If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your system while you only
have SATA HDDs on your system, you will need to make an SATA driver diskette
before you start the OS installation.
STEP 1: Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to
STEP 2: During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press
STEP 3: When you see the message on the screen, "Do you want
chassis.
motherboard's primary SATA connector (SATA1).
primary SATA hard disk.
motherboard's secondary SATA connector (SATA2).
secondary SATA hard disk.
boot your system. (Do NOT insert any floppy diskette into
the floppy drive at this moment!)
<F11> key, and then a window for boot devices selection
appears. Please select CD-ROM as the boot device.
to generate Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?", press <Y>.
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