Installing Windows 2000 / Windows Xp With Raid Functions - ASROCK P4VM800Pro-DDR2 User Manual

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2.9

Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP With RAID

2.9

Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP With RAID

Functions

If you want to install Windows 2000 / Windows XP OS on your SATA HDDs with

RAID functions, please follow the below steps.

STEP 1: Make a SATA Driver Diskette.

A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system.

B. During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11> key, and then a

window for boot devices selection appears. Please select CD-ROM as the boot

device.

C. When you see the message on the screen, "Do you want to generate Serial

ATA driver diskette [YN]?", press <Y>.

D. Then you will see these messages,

Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive.

WARNING! Formatting the floppy diskette will

lose ALL data in it!

Start to format and copy files [YN]?

Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and press <Y>.

E. The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA drivers into

the floppy diskette.

STEP 2: Use "RAID Installation Guide" to set RAID configuration.

Before you start to configure the RAID function, you need to check the installation

guide in the Support CD for proper 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

STEP 3: Install Windows 2000 / Windows XP OS on your system.

After making a SATA driver diskette and using "RAID Installation Guide" to set RAID

configuration, you can start to install Windows 2000 / Windows XP on your

system.

After the installation of Windows 2000 / Windows XP OS, if you want to manage

RAID functions, you are allowed to use both "RAID Installation Guide" and "VIA

RAID Tool 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 VIA RAID Tool", which is located

in the folder at the following path: .. \ VIA RAID Tool Information

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