Driver Installation Guide; Installing Windows ® 7 / 7 64-Bit / Vista; Tm Tm; Tm / Vista Tm 64-Bit / Xp - ASROCK A55iCafe User Manual

2.13 Driver Installation Guide

To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your optical
drive first. Then, the drivers compatible to your system can be auto-detected and
listed on the support CD driver page. Please follow the order from up to bottom side
to install those required drivers. Therefore, the drivers you install can work properly.
2.14 Installing Windows

XP 64-bit With RAID Functions

If you want to install Windows
on a RAID disk composed of 2 or more SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions,
please follow below procedures according to the OS you install.
2.14.1 Installing Windows
If you want to install Windows
more SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps.
STEP 1: Set up UEFI.
A. Enter UEFI SETUP UTILITY
Configuration.
B. Set the "SATA Mode" option to [RAID].
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII Driver Diskette. (Please use USB floppy or
floppy disk.)
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, "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 any key.
E. The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA / SATAII
drivers into the floppy diskette.
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