Setting Up A "Raid Ready" System - ASROCK H67M User Manual

STEP 3: Use "RAID Installation Guide" to set RAID confi guration.
Before you start to con gure the RAID function, you need to check the
installation guide in the Support CD for proper con guration. Please refer to the
document in the Support CD, "Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID
Con guration", which is located in the folder at the following path:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
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STEP 4: Install Windows
After making a SATA / SATAII / SATA3 driver diskette and using "RAID Installation
Guide" to set RAID con guration, you can start to install Windows
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
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containing the Intel RAID driver. After reading the oppy disk, the driver will be
presented. Select the driver to install according to the mode you choose and the OS
you install.
After the installation of Windows
tions, you are allowed to use both "RAID Installation Guide" and "Intel Rapid Storage Infor-
mation" for RAID con guration. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to
SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Con 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
If you want to use "Intel Rapid Storage" in Windows
please install "SATAII driver" from the Support CD again so that "Intel
Rapid Storage" will be installed to your system as well.

2.16.2 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 BIOS as step 1 of page 34. When done, exit Setup.
3. Make a SATA / SATAII / SATA3 driver diskette as step 2 of page 34. Begin
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Windows setup by booting from the installation CD.
4. At the beginning of Windows
When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII / SATA3 driver diskette containing the
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Intel RAID driver. After reading the oppy disk, the driver will be presented.
Select the driver to install according to the mode you choose and the OS you
install.
XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.
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XP / XP-64bit OS, if you want to manage RAID func-
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setup, press F6 to install a third-party RAID driver.
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XP / XP 64-
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