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Installing WindowsInstalling Windows
Installing WindowsInstalling Windows
Installing Windows
®
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / Vista
TMTM
TMTM
TM
/ /
/ /
/
VistaVista
VistaVista
Vista
TMTM
TMTM
TM
64-bit With RAID Functions 64-bit With RAID Functions
64-bit With RAID Functions 64-bit With RAID Functions
64-bit With RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows
®
2000, Windows
®
XP, Windows
®
XP 64-bit, Windows
®
Vista
TM
or Windows
®
Vista
TM
64-bit 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.
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2.16.1 Installing Windows
®
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With
RAID Functions RAID Functions
RAID Functions RAID Functions
RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows
®
2000, Windows
®
XP or Windows
®
XP 64-bit on a RAID
disk composed of 2 or more SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow
below steps.
STEP 1: Set up BIOS.
A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.
B. Set the “SATA Operation Mode” option to [RAID].
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII Driver Diskette.
A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system.
(There are two ASRock Support CD in the motherboard gift box pack,
please choose the one for Windows
®
2000 / XP / XP 64-bit.)
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 blank
formatted diskette into floppy
drive A:
press any key to start
Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and press any key.
1. For Windows
®
Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit OS, the SATA / SATAII RAID driver keeps
on updating now. As long as we have the latest driver, we will update it to our
website in the near future. Please visit our website for the latest version
Windows
®
Vista
TM
/ Vista
TM
64-bit RAID driver and related information.
2. Before installing Windows
®
2000 to your system, your Windows
®
2000 optical
disk is supposed to include SP4. If there is no SP4 included in your disk, please
visit the below website for proper procedures of making a SP4 disk:
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/spdeploy.
htm#the_integrated_installation_fmay
