A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows® 2000/XP operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in a RAID set. You can create a RAID driver disk in DOS (using the Makedisk application in the support CD) or in Windows® environment.
To create a RAID driver disk in DOS environment:
1.Place the motherboard support CD in the optical drive.
2.Restart the computer, then enter the BIOS Setup.
3.Select the optical drive as the first boot priority to boot from the support CD. Save your changes, then exit the BIOS Setup.
4.Restart the computer.
5.Press any key when prompted to boot from CD.
Loading FreeDOS FAT KERNEL GO!
Press any key to boot from CDROM...
The Makedisk menu appears.
1)Intel ICH7R RAID/AHCI Driver Page
2)Marvell 88SE6141 SATA Driver for P5WDG2 WS PRO Page
3)Marvell 88SE6145 SATA RAID Driver for P5W64 WS PRO Page
4)FreeDOS command prompt
Please choose 1 ~ 4
6.Place a blank,
Insert new diskette for drive B:\
and press ENTER when ready...
7.Press <Enter> to format the floppy disk.
8.When finished, select the type of RAID driver disk you want to create by typing the number preceding the option, then press <Enter>. The following message appears on screen.
Please insert your formatted floppy to drive B:\
Press a key to continue.
The screens shown in this section are for reference only, and may not exactly match the items on your screen.
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