Creating A Raid Driver Disk; Creating A Raid Driver Disk Without Entering The Os; Creating A Raid Driver Disk In Windows - Asus P5QD Turbo User Manual

4.5

Creating a RAID driver disk

The motherboard comes with the Intel
configure Serial ATA hard disk drives as RAID sets. The motherboard supports the following
RAID configurations: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and RAID 5.
• The motherboard does not provide a floppy drive connector. You have to use a
USB floppy disk drive when creating a SATA RAID driver disk.
• Windows
limitation. To work around this OS limitation, refer to section 4.5.3 Using a USB
floppy disk drive.
4.5.1

Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS

To create a RAID/SATA driver disk without entering the OS:
1. Boot your computer.
2. Press <Del> during POST to enter the BIOS setup utility.
3. Set the optical drive as the primary boot device.
4. Insert the support DVD into the optical drive.
5. Save changes and exit BIOS.
When the Make Disk menu appears, press <a> or <b> to create a 32/64bit
6.
Intel ICH10R RAID driver disk.
7. Insert a formatted floppy disk into the USB floppy disk drive, then press <Enter>.
8. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the process.
4.5.2

Creating a RAID driver disk in Windows

To create a RAID driver disk in Windows
1. Start Windows .
®
2. Plug the USB floppy disk drive and insert a floppy disk.
3. Place the motherboard support DVD into the optical drive.
Go to the Make Disk menu, and then click Intel ICH10R 32/64 bit RAID Driver Disk to
4.
create an Intel ICH10R RAID driver disk.
®
5. Select USB floppy disk drive as the destination disk.
6. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the process.
Write-protect the floppy disk to avoid a computer virus infection.
ASUS P5QD Turbo
ICH10R Southbridge controller that allows you to
®
XP may not recognize the USB floppy disk drive due to Windows
®
:
®
XP
®
®
4-17