Installing The Sata Raid/Ahci Driver And Operating System - Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 User Manual

5-1-2 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System

With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 7.
A. Installing Windows 7
As Windows 7 already include Intel SATA RAID/AHCI driver, you do not need to install separate RAID/AHCI
driver during the Windows installation process. After the operating system is installed, we recommend that you
install all required drivers from the motherboard driver disk using "Xpress Install" to ensure system performance
and compatibility.
B. Rebuilding an Array
Rebuilding is the process of restoring data to a hard drive from other drives in the array. Rebuilding applies only
to fault-tolerant arrays such as RAID 1, RAID 5 or RAID 10 arrays. The procedures below assume a new drive
is added to replace a failed drive to rebuild a RAID 1 array. (Note: The new drive must have equal or greater
capacity than the old one.)
Turn off your computer and replace the failed hard drive with a new one. Restart your computer.
Enabling Automatic Rebuild
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Step 1:
When the message "Press <Ctrl-I> to enter Configuration Utility" appears, press <Ctrl> + <I> to enter the RAID
Configuration Utility. The following screen appears after you enter the RAID Configuration Utility.
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1. Create RAID Volume
2. Delete RAID Volume
"Degraded volume and disk available for rebuilding detected. Selecting
a disk initiates a rebuild. Rebuild completes in the operating system.
Select the port of the destination disk for rebuilding (ESC to exit):
RAID Volumes :
ID Drive Model
None defined.
1 WDC WD800JD-22LS
Physical Disks :
[hi]-Previous/Next
ID Drive Model
0 ST3120026AS
1 WDC WD800JD-22LS
[hi]-Select
[ MAIN MENU ]
[ DEGRADED VOLUME DETECTED
[ DISK/VOLUME INFORMATION ]
Serial #
WD-WMAM9W736333
[ENTER]-Select
Serial # Size
3JT354CP 111.7GB
WD-WMAM9W736333 111.7GB
[ESC]-Exit
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]
3. Reset Disks to Non-RAID
4. Exit
Size
111.7GB
[ESC]-Exit
Type/Status(Vol ID)
Member Disk (0)
Non-RAID Disk
[ENTER]-Select Menu
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