Create A Raid Driver Diskette - Foxconn P35A Series User Manual

5-1 Create a RAID driver diskette

If you want to install a brand new Windows XP on a 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 floppy diskette which will be used during Windows XP installation later.
Windows Vista has native RAID driver in itself, you can skip these steps.
1. Find another PC, put a diskette into
its floppy drive A:, this diskette will be
formatted later. Put the P35A driver CD
into CD-ROM drive, after the screen
comes out, click on "Utility" icon, then
click on "Create RAID Driver Floppy"
icon.
2. A message pops out telling you where to
find the routine in driver CD to create the
driver diskette.
3. Depending on which platform your XP
system is, normally, it is a 32-bit system.
Use Windows explorer, and go to CD:\
Driver\Intel\RAID\Floppy\Win2K_XP,
click on F6flpy32.exe to start the creation.
4. Asking you to insert a diskette into floppy
drive A:.
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