Installing Driver
■ OS Support
Intel RSTe driver supports following OS:
•Windows XP 64 bit only.
•Windows Vista 32 bit and 64 bit.
•Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit.
•Windows Server 2008 SP2 32 bit and 64 bit.
•Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit only.
•Windows Server 2003.
■New Windows 7/ Windows Vista / Windows XP Installation
The following details the installation of the drivers while installing operating system.
1.When you start installing Windows XP, you may encounter a message stating, “Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices installed in your system”. If this is the case, then you are already in the right place and are ready to supply the driver. If this is not the case, then press F6 when prompted at the beginning of Windows setup.
2.Press the “S” key to select “Specify Additional Device”.
3.You should be prompted to insert a floppy disk containing the Intel® RAID driver into the A: drive.
Note: For Windows XP, you can use the USB floppy drive only. For Windows Vista/ Windows 7 you can use USB drive.
Important
Please follow the instruction below to make an “Intel® RAID Driver” for yourself.
•Insert the MSI Driver Disc into the optical drive.
•Click the “Browse CD” on the Setup screen.
•Copy all the contents in \\Storage\Intel\RSTe to a formatted floppy diskette.
•The driver diskette for Intel® RAID Controller is done.
4.For Windows Vista/ Windows 7:
During the Operating system installation, after selecting the location to install Vista / Windows 7 click on “Load Driver” button to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver.
5.When prompted, insert the floppy disk or USB you created in step 3 and press Enter.
6.You should be shown a list of available SCSI Adapters.
7.Select the appropriate Intel RAID controller and press ENTER.
8.The next screen should confirm that you have selected the Intel® C600 Series Chip- set SATA RAID Controller. Press ENTER again to continue.
9.You have successfully installed the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise driver, and Windows setup should continue.