Toshiba Qosmio G20 (PQG21) - Manual (Page 212)

E-2 User’s Manual
TOSHIBA RAID
Setting up Windows Manually
Use the following procedures to set up your Windows operating system
manually.
Before Setting Up Windows
Before setting up Windows, create a TOSHIBA RAID Driver Floppy Disk
and configure the BIOS setup program.
Creating the TOSHIBA RAID Driver Floppy Disk
1. Connect the USB floppy disk drive (optional) and insert a floppy disk.
2. Locate the TOSHIBA RAID Driver in the Tools & Drivers Depository on
your hard disk drive (‘C:\TOOLSCD\RAID driver’ folder).
3. Copy all files from this folder to the floppy disk.
Configuring the BIOS Setup Program
In the RAID ARRAY setting of the BIOS setup program, make sure the
built-in hard disk drive is set to 1RAID-0.
Refer to the
Starting, Modifying and Ending the BIOS Setup Program , later
in this appendix.
Windows Setup Procedure
1. Insert the Windows Setup CD-ROM into the optical disk drive and boot
the computer up from the optical disk drive. The Windows Setup
program will start.
2. When the message “Press F6 if you need to install a
third party SCSI or RAID driver” appears on the screen,
press the F6 key.
3. When the message “Setup will load support for the
following mass storage device(s):” appears on the screen,
press the S key and install the TOSHIBA RAID Driver using the
TOSHIBA RAID Driver Floppy Disk that you created.
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to continue setting up Windows.
■ Please use only hard disk drives supported by the computer. Correct
operations cannot be guaranteed if other hard disk drives are used.
■ The following types of applications might not work correctly:
■ Applications that directly access the hardware and read/write to the
hard disk drive.
■ Using an operating system such as Linux to run applications that
read/write to the hard disk drive.