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X79 Extreme11 Motherboard

D. Plug the USB flash disk into your USB port; select “Browse” to find the RAID
driver. Then choose the directory (xx\AMD64\) you have copied in the first
step.

Installing OS on a HDD Larger Than 2TB in RAID Mode

This motherboard adopts UEFI BIOS that allows Windows

OS to be installed on a

large size HDD (>2TB). Please follow the procedures below to install the operating
system.

1. Please make sure to use

Windows

Vista

64-bit (with SP2 or above) or

Windows

7 64-bit (with SP1 or above).

2. Copy Intel

RAID drivers into a USB flash disk. You can download the driver from

ASRock's website and unzip the file into a USB flash disk

OR copy the file from

ASRock motherboard support CD. (please copy the files under the following
directory:

32 bit: ..\i386\Win7_Vista_Intel..

64-bit: ..\AMD64\Win7-64_Vista64_Intel..
3. Create a RAID array for you system. Please refer to "Intel RAID Installation
Guide" file for details.
4. Install Windows

Vista

64-bit / 7 64-bit:

A. Insert your Windows

Vista

64-bit / 7 64-bit installation disc to the optical

drive.
B. Press to launch boot menu at system POST and choose the item
“UEFI:xxx“ to boot.
C. Start Windows

Installation. When you see “Where do you want to install

Windows?” page, please click “Load Driver”.

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