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5-4 Install a New Windows XP

Assume a Mirrored array (249.99GB) was created as introduced in section 5-3, after
the system restarts :
1. Press to enter BIOS Setup during POST.
2. Insert the Windows installation CD into the optical drive.
3. Set the “1st Boot Device” to “CD/DVD-ROM”, save changes and exit BIOS.

4. The computer will reboot, and it will start installing Windows Operating System.
Watch the screen carefully, when the following picture appears, press key

immediately. If you forget to do this, PC will go to an fatal blue screen, and you
may need to reboot the system again. PC may not respond to your input
immediately, and it keeps loading files until the next screen displays.

Windows Setup

Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver.

Boot Device Priority

Item Help

1st Boot Device [CDROM]

Specifies the boot

2nd Boot Device [HDD:SM-HDS728080PL] sequence from the

3rd Boot Device [1st Floppy Drive]

available devices.

A device enclosed in

parenthesis has been

disabled in the

corresponding type

menu.

↑↓→←:Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help

F9: Optimized Defaults

[CD/DVD:SS-DVD-ROM]

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