With Raid Functions - ASROCK M3N78D Installation Manual

1.3.2 Installing Windows

With RAID Functions

If you want to install Windows
SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps.
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY
Configuration.
B. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [RAID].
STEP 2: Use "RAID Installation Guide" to set RAID configuration.
Before you start to configure RAID function, you need to check the RAID installation
guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the BIOS RAID
installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
STEP 3: Install Windows
system.
Insert the Windows ® 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista
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 NVIDIA
drivers. NVIDIA ® RAID drivers are in the following path in our Support CD:
.. \ I386 (For Windows ® Vista
.. \ AMD64 (For Windows ®
After that, please insert Windows
drive again to continue the installation.
NOTE. If you install Windows
manage (create, convert, delete, or rebuild) RAID functions on SATA / SATAII HDDs,
you still need to set up "SATA Operation Mode" to [RAID] in BIOS first. Then, please
set the RAID configuration by using the Windows RAID installation guide in the
following path in the Support CD:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
® 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista
® 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista TM / Vista
Advanced screen
® TM
7 / 7 64-bit / Vista / Vista
TM / Vista TM 64-bit optical disk into the optical
TM OS)
Vista TM 64-bit OS)
® TM TM
Vista / Vista 64-bit optical disk into the optical
® 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista TM / Vista TM
7
TM / Vista TM 64-bit
TM 64-bit on your SATA /
Storge
TM
64-bit OS on your
® 7 / 7 64-bit
®
RAID
64-bit on IDE HDDs and want to