Create A Raid Driver Diskette - Foxconn H77MXV Series User Manual

RAID CONFIGURATION

5-4 Create a RAID driver diskette

If you want to install a brand new Windows XP on a AHCI or RAID system, you need to
configure the SATA Mode in BIOS to either AHCI or RAID first. You also need to create a RAID
driver diskette for use in installing your Windows XP system.
Windows 7 has native RAID driver in itself, you can skip these steps.
1. Find a PC, put a diskette into its floppy drive A:, this diskette will be formatted later. Put the
driver CD into DVD-ROM drive.
2. Depending on which platform your system is,
normally, it is a 32-bit XP system. Use
Windows explorer, and go to CD:\Driver\Intel\
RAID\Floppy\32bit, click on RaidTool icon to
start the creation.
3. Click "GO" to start.
4. Select the desired destination FDD drive. It
can be the default drive A: or any USB FDD.
Click "OK" to continue.
5. Insert a diskette, click "OK" to continue.
6. You can input a volume label for this diskette,
click on "Start" to format.
7. Click on "OK" to go through this
warning message.
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