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5.6

Creating a RAID driver disk

A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows

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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 from 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 first 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 floppy disk to the floppy disk drive, then
press <4>. The following message displays on screen.

Loading FreeDOS FAT KERNEL GO!

Press any key to boot from CDROM...

1) Make ICH6R SATA driver disk

2) Make Sil3114 SATA/RAID driver disk

3) Make ITE RAID driver disk

4) Format floppy disk

5) FreeDOS command prompt

Please choose 1 ~ 5

7.

Press to format the floppy disk.

8.

When finished, select the type of RAID driver disk you want to create
by typing the number preceding the option, then press . For
example, if you want to create an ICH6R SATA RAID driver disk, press
<1>. The following message appears on screen.

Insert new diskette for drive B:\

and press ENTER when ready...

Please insert your formatted floppy to drive B:\

Press a key to continue.

9.

The RAID drivers are copied to the floppy disk. After creating a RAID
driver disk, eject the floppy disk, then write-protect it to prevent
computer virus infection.

10. Press any key to return to the Makedisk menu.