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FIGURE 6-1
For information about specific details of the operating system installation, refer to
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your Microsoft Windows documentation.
Note – The complete Microsoft Windows operating system installation process is
not documented in this section. This section documents only the steps that are
specific for installing Windows Server 2003 on your server.
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If you want to include your boot disk as part of a RAID configuration, you
must configure your RAID volume(s) using the controller's array configuration
utility before you install the Windows operating system. The controller's BIOS
configuration utility is accessible during the server boot process by pressing
Ctrl+A when prompted.
If you have a clean boot disk (no partitions) and do not want to make it part of
a RAID, you must still create an array volume on it using the controller's BIOS
configuration utility (accessible by pressing Ctrl+A when prompted during
server boot) in order for Windows to be able to access the disk. This must be
done before you install the Windows operating system. For more information,
see Appendix B.
If you have a disk with a preinstalled bootable array volume (and it is not part
of an existing RAID that you want to keep) and you want to overwrite it to
install Windows, no other disk preparation is required. During the Windows
operating system installation you will be presented the option to overwrite any
existing partition(s) within the array volume. The following figure shows an
example of a system with an existing bootable array volume.
Example Startup Screen Showing Existing Adaptec-based Array Volume