Setting Up a RAID Ready System | ASRock P67 Extreme4 Gen3 guide

STEP 3: 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 4: Install Windows® XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.

After making a SATA / SATAII / SATA3 driver diskette and using “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID conﬁguration, you can start to install Windows® XP / XP 64- bit on your system. At the beginning of Windows setup, press F6 to install a third- party RAID driver. When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII / SATA3 driver diskette containing the Intel® 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® XP / XP-64bit OS, if you want to manage RAID func- tions, you are allowed to use both “RAID Installation Guide” and “Intel Rapid Storage Infor- mation” 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: .. \ RAID Installation Guide and the document in the support CD, “Guide to Intel Rapid Storage”, which is located in the folder at the following path:

.. \ Intel Rapid Storage Information

If you want to use “Intel Rapid Storage” in Windows® environment, install “SATAII driver” from the Support CD again so that “Intel Rapid Storage” will be installed to your system as well.

2.20.2 Setting Up a “RAID Ready” System

You can also set up a “RAID Ready” system with a single SATA / SATAII / SATA3 hard disk. A “RAID Ready” system can be seamlessly upgraded to RAID 0, RAID

1 or RAID 5 at a later date by using RAID migration feature of Intel Rapid Storage. The following steps outline how to build an Intel “RAID Ready” system.

1.Assemble the system and attach a single SATA / SATAII / SATA3 hard drive.

2.Set up system UEFI as step 1 of page 48. When done, exit Setup.

3.Make a SATA / SATAII / SATA3 driver diskette as step 2 of page 48. Begin Windows® setup by booting from the installation CD.

4.At the beginning of Windows® setup, press F6 to install a third-party RAID driver. When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII / SATA3 driver diskette containing the Intel® 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.