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2. The selection bar will move to the Disks section on the right of the screen. Select the hard drives to be included
in the RAID array. Use the up or down arrow key to select a hard drive and press <Insert>. The selected
hard drive will be shown in green. To use all of the hard drives, simply press <A> to select all. Then press
<Enter> and the selection bar will move to the User Input
3. First, select a RAID mode and press <Enter>. The selections available depend on the number of the hard drives
space
4. Select a caching mode. Options include Read/Write, Read Only, and None. Then press <Enter> to proceed.
5.
Deleting an Array
The
menu option allows for deletion of disk array assignments.
1. Select
in the Main Menu and press <Enter>.
2. In the Arrays section, press the <Insert> key on the array you want to delete and then press <Enter> to proceed.
3.
Deleting an existing disk array could result in loss of data. Record all array information including the
With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install the operating system.
A. Installing Windows 8.1/8/7
Step 1:
You need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver during the OS installation. Use an alternative system to copy
under BootDrv in the driver disk.
Step 2:
Boot from the Windows 8.1 setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When the screen requesting
you to load the driver appears, select Browse.
Step 3:
RAID driver for Windows 8.1 32-bit: Hw8_A88\RAID\x86
RAID driver for Windows 8.1 64-bit: Hw8_A88\RAID\x64
AHCI driver for Windows 8.1 32-bit: Hw8_A88\AHCI\W8
AHCI driver for Windows 8.1 64-bit: Hw8_A88\AHCI\W864A
For Windows 7, browse to the Hw7_A88 folder.
Step 4:
Select AMD-RAID Controller and click
installation, you can proceed with the Windows XP installation.
Method A:
to load the driver and continue the OS installation. After the driver
\BootDrv\Hxp_A88
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Hw8_A88 folder
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