6.2Creating a RAID driver disk

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.When prompted, press any key to boot from the support CD.

Loading FreeDOS FAT KERNEL GO!

Press any key to boot from CDROM...

The Makedisk menu appears.

1)FreeDOS command prompt

2)Run AWDFlash to Flash BIOS

3)Create Silicon Image SATA SoftRAID 5 miniport for Windows driver

4)Create nVIDIA nForce(TM) RAID driver for Win2000 32 bit driver

5)Create nVIDIA nForce(TM) RAID driver for WinXP 32 bit driver

6)Create nVIDIA nForce(TM) RAID driver for Win2003 32 bit driver Please choose 1 ~ 6

5.Place a blank, high-density floppy disk to the floppy disk drive.

When you insert a floppy disk with data, the utility erases all the data before copying the RAID drivers.

6.Type the number before the option you like to select, then press <Enter>. For example, if you want to create an nVIDIA nForce(TM) RAID driver disk for a 32-bit Windows 2000 system, press <4>, then press <Enter>.

7.The RAID drivers are copied to the floppy disk. After creating a RAID driver disk, eject the floppy disk, then write-protect it to prevent computer virus infection.

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