ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 - Manual (Page 217)

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ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 Motherboard
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Installing OS on a HDD Larger Than 2TB
This motherboard is adopting UEFI BIOS that allows Windows ® OS to be installed
on a large size HDD (>2TB). Please follow below procedure to install the operating
system.
1. Please make sure to use Windows ® Vista TM 64-bit (with SP1 or above) or
Windows ® 7 64-bit.
2. Press or at system POST. Set AHCI Mode in UEFI Setup Utility >
Advanced > Storage Confi guration > SATA Mode.
3. Choose the item “UEFI:xxx“ to boot in UEFI Setup Utility > Boot > Boot Option #1.
(“xxx” is the device which contains your Windows
® installation fi les. Normally it is
an optical drive.) You can also press to launch boot menu at system POST
and choose the item “UEFI:xxx“ to boot.
4. Start Windows
® installation. Please be noted that you need to copy RAID driver
from our support CD to your USB fl ash fi rst. The RAID driver is located in the
following path of our support CD:
.. \Drivers\Serial ATA For Floppy Disk\Intel\v10.6.0.1002\AMD64
Insert the Windows
® optical disk into the optical drive to boot your system, and
follow the instruction to install OS on your system. When you see “Where do you
want to install Windows?” page, please insert the USB fl ash to your system, and
click the “Load Driver” button to load the RAID driver. After that, you can continue
the OS installation. Please do not remove your USB fl ash until the OS installation
process is fi nished.
6. If you install Windows ® 7 64-bit OS, OS will be formatted by GPT (GUID Partition
Table). Please install the hotfi x fi le from Microsoft ® :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979903