Installing Windows - ASROCK AM2V890-VSTA Schnellinstallationsanleitung

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The installation procedures for Windows Vista
If you want to install Windows
your SATA HDDs with RAID functions, please follow the below steps.
STEP 1: Make a SATA Driver Diskette.
A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system.
B. During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11> key, and then a
window for boot devices selection appears. Please select CD-ROM as the boot
device.
C. When you see the message on the screen, "Do you want to generate Serial
ATA driver diskette [YN]?", press <Y>.
D. Then you will see these messages,
Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive.
WARNING! Formatting the floppy diskette will
lose ALL data in it!
Start to format and copy files [YN]?
Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and press <Y>.
E. The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA drivers into
the floppy diskette.
STEP 2: Use "RAID Installation Guide" to set RAID configuration.
Before you start to configure the RAID function, you need to check the installation
guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the document in the
Support CD, "Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration", which is
located in the folder at the following path: .. \ RAID Installation Guide
STEP 3: Install Windows
your system.
After making a SATA driver diskette and using "RAID Installation Guide" to set RAID
configuration, you can start to install Windows
64bit on your system. At the beginning of Windows
party SCSI or RAID driver. When prompted, insert a floppy disk containing the VIA
RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be presented. Select the
driver to install according to the mode you choose and the OS you install.
After the installation of Windows
OS, if you want to manage RAID functions, you are allowed to use both "RAID
Installation Guide" and "VIA RAID Tool Information" for RAID configuration. Please
refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation
and RAID Configuration", which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \
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