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STEP 4: Install Windows
After making a SATA / SATAII / SATA3 driver diskette and using
"RAID Installation Guide" to set RAID configuration, you can start to
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install Windows
Windows setup, press F6 to install a third-party RAID driver. When
prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII / SATA3 driver diskette containing
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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.
After the installation of Windows
you are allowed to use both "RAID Installation Guide" and "Intel Rapid Storage Information"
for RAID configuration. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to SATA
Hard Disks Installation 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 Rapid Storage", which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ Intel Rapid
Storage Information
If you want to use "Intel Rapid Storage" in Windows
install "SATAII drivers" from the Support CD again so that "Intel Rapid
Storage" 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 /
SATA3 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 Rapid Storage. The following steps outline how to build an Intel "RAID
Ready" system.
1. Assemble the system and attach a single SATA / SATAII / SATA3 hard
drive.
2. Set up system BIOS as step 1 of page 6. When done, exit Setup.
3. Make a SATA / SATAII / SATA3 driver diskette as step 2 of page 6. Begin
Windows
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setup by booting from the installation CD.
4. At the beginning of Windows
RAID driver. When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII / SATA3 driver
diskette containing the Intel
the driver will be presented. Select the driver to install according to the
mode you choose and the OS you install.
5. Finish the Windows
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XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.
XP / XP 64-bit on your system. At the beginning of
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XP / XP-64bit OS, if you want to manage RAID functions,
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setup, press F6 to install a third-party
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RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk,
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installation and install all necessary drivers.
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environment, please
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