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Installing RAID Drivers during Windows Installation
Installation of RAID drivers is done during the Windows installation. These steps assume that the
hard disks have already been connected to either the PATA or SATA connectors. It is also assumed
that the BIOS RAID Utility has already been configured (see NVIDIA BIOS RAID Utility
Configuration section) and you have begun the Windows operating system installation.
Preparation: Before beginning with the steps in this section copy the “RAID Driver” and associated
files from the bundle CD Driver to an empty floppy disk [Location of files on CD-ROM => \ Driver \
nForce \ 4.24 \ IDE \ WIN2K (or WINXP)\ *.*]. This will have to be done on another system if you
are installing the system from scratch.
1. During Windows installation, the “Windows Setup” screen will prompt you with “Press F6 if
you need to install third party SCSI or RAID driver”. Press <F6>.
2. Press 's' when setup asks if you want to specify an additional device. Insert the floppy disk which
includes the “RAID Driver” into the floppy drive. Press 'Enter' and select the appropriate OS
device driver.
3. Press 'Enter' again to continue the setup process.
4. Follow the setup instructions and select your choice for partition and file system.
5. After setup examines your disks, it will copy files to the Windows
®
2000/ XP installation folders
and restart the system. After the system is rebooted the setup program will continue with the
installation all the way to completion.
6. Wait until Windows
®
2000/ XP finishes installing devices, regional settings, networking settings,
components, and the final set of tasks. Reboot the system if you are asked to do so.
Attention
The RAID array can only functions in the Windows
®
2000/ XP.