Creating A Raid Driver Disk In Windows; Installing The Raid Driver During Windows ® Os Installation - Asus Z97M-PLUS User Manual

5.2.2

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.
4. Go to the AHCI/RAID Driver tab then click Intel AHCI/RAID Driver Path to open the
RAID driver folder.
5. Select 32bit or 64bit folder depending on your operating system. Copy the files of the
selected folder to the root path of your USB floppy disk drive.
Write-protect the floppy disk to avoid a computer virus infection.
5.2.3 Installing the RAID driver during Windows
installation
To install the RAID driver for Windows
1. During the OS installation, click Load Driver to allow you to select the installation
media containing the RAID driver.
2. Insert the USB flash drive with RAID driver into the USB port or the support DVD into
the optical drive, and then click Browse.
3. Click the name of the device you've inserted, go to Drivers > RAID, and then select
the RAID driver for the corresponding OS version. Click OK.
4. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the installation.
Before loading the RAID driver from a USB flash drive, you have to use another computer
to copy the RAID driver from the support DVD to the USB flash drive.
To set up a Windows
driver for your optical drive.
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