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5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk
A oppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows
®
2000/XP operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in a
RAID set. You can create a RAID driver disk in DOS (using the Makedisk
application in the support CD) or in Windows
®
environment.
To create a RAID driver disk in DOS environment:
1. Place the motherboard support CD in the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer, then enter the BIOS Setup.
3. Select the optical drive as the rst boot priority to boot from the
support CD. Save your changes, then exit the BIOS Setup.
4. Restart the computer.
5. Press any key when prompted to boot from CD.
The Makedisk menu appears.
6. Place a blank, high-density oppy disk to the oppy disk drive, then
press the corresponding number to format the oppy disk. The
following message displays on screen.
Loading FreeDOS FAT KERNEL GO!
Press any key to boot from CDROM...
1) Make ICH7R 32-bit RAID driver disk
2) Make ICH7R 64-bit RAID driver disk
3) Make Marvell 88SE6140 SATA2 RAID driver disk
4) Format oppy disk
5) FreeDOS command prompt
Please choose 1 ~ 6
7. Press <Enter> to format the oppy disk.
8. When nished, select the type of RAID driver disk you want to create
by typing the number preceding the option, then press <Enter>. The
following message appears on screen.
Insert new diskette for drive B:\
and press ENTER when ready...
Please insert your formatted oppy to drive B:\
Press a key to continue.
The screens shown in this section are for reference only, and may not
exactly match the items on your screen.