Creating A Raid Driver Disk - Asus P5LD2-V User Manual

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5.5

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:

Place the motherboard support CD in the optical drive.

Restart the computer, then enter the BIOS Setup.

Select the optical drive as the first boot priority to boot from the

support CD. Save your changes, then exit the BIOS Setup.

Restart the computer.

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 32-bit RAID driver disk

2) Make ICH7 64-bit RAID driver disk

3) Format floppy disk

4) FreeDOS command prompt

Please choose 1 ~ 4

Place a blank, high-density floppy disk to the floppy disk drive, then

press the corresponding number to format the floppy disk. The

following message displays on screen.

Insert new diskette for drive B:\

and press ENTER when ready...

Press <Enter> to format the floppy disk.

When finished, select the type of RAID driver disk you want to create

by typing the number preceding the option, then press <Enter>. The

following message appears on screen.

Please insert your formatted floppy to drive B:\

Press a key to continue.

The screens shown in this section are for reference only, and may not

exactly match the items on your screen.

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