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STEP 4: Install Windows
system.
After making a SATA / SATAII driver diskette and using "RAID
Installation Guide" to set RAID configuration, you can start to install
Windows
®
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit on your system. At the beginning of
Windows setup, press F6 to install a third-party RAID driver. When
prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII driver diskette containing the
®
Intel
RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be
presented. Select the driver to install according to the mode you
choose and the OS you install. You may select: "Intel(R) 82801GR/
GH SATA RAID Controller (Desktop ICH7R-Windows XP/2000)" for
®
Windows
XP/2000 or "Intel(R) 82801GR/GH SATA RAID Controller
(Desktop ICH7R-Windows XP64)" for Windows
After the installation of Windows
want to manage RAID functions, you are allowed to use both "RAID Installation
Guide" and "Intel Matrix Storage Manager Information" for RAID configuration.
Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installa-
tion and RAID Configuration", which is located in the folder at the following path: ..
\ RAID Installation Guide and the document in the support CD, "Guide to Intel Matrix
Storage Manager", which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ Intel Matrix
Storage Manager Information
If you want to use "Intel Matrix Storage Manager" in Windows
please install SATA / SATAII drivers from the Support CD again so that "Intel
Matrix Storage Manager" will be installed to your system as well.
2.3.2 Setting Up a "RAID Ready" System
You can also set up a "RAID Ready" system with a single SATA / SATAII
hard disk. A "RAID Ready" system can be seamlessly upgraded to RAID 0,
RAID 1 or RAID 5 at a later date by using RAID migration feature of Intel
Matrix Storage. The following steps outline how to build an Intel "RAID
Ready" system.
1. Assemble the system and attach a single SATA / SATAII hard drive.
2. Set up system BIOS as step 1 of page 6. When done, exit Setup.
3. Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette as step 2 of page 6. Begin
Windows
®
setup by booting from the installation CD.
4. At the beginning of Windows
RAID driver. When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII driver diskette
containing the Intel
will be presented.
®
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit OS on your
®
®
2000 / Windows
XP / Windows
®
setup, press F6 to install a third-party
®
RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver
7
®
XP 64-bit.
®
XP-64bit OS, if you
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environment,
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