4Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default, and press <Enter>.

5Use the up- and down-arrow keys to select RAID1(Mirror), and press <Enter>.

6If there are more than two hard disks available, use the up- and down-arrow keys and space bar to select the two disks you want to use to make up your array, and then press <Enter>.

7Select the desired capacity for the volume, and press <Enter>. The default value is the maximum available size.

8Press <Enter> to create the volume.

9Press <y> to confirm that you want to create the RAID volume.

10Confirm that the correct volume configuration is displayed on the main Intel Option ROM screen.

11Use the up- and down-arrow keys to select Exit, and press <Enter>.

12Install the operating system (see "Reinstalling Microsoft® Windows® XP" on page 64).

Deleting a RAID Volume

NOTE: When you perform this operation, all data on the RAID drives will be lost.

NOTE: If your computer currently boots to RAID and you delete the RAID volume in the Intel RAID Option ROM, your computer will become unbootable.

1Press <Ctrl><i> when you are prompted to enter the Intel RAID Option ROM utility.

2Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight Delete RAID Volume, and press <Enter>.

3Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight the RAID volume you want to delete, and press <Delete>.

4Press <y> to confirm the deletion of the RAID volume.

5Press <Esc> to exit the Intel Option ROM utility.

Configuring for RAID Using the Intel(R) Application Accelerator

If you already have one hard drive with the operating system installed on it, and you want to add a second hard drive and reconfigure both drives into a RAID volume without losing the existing operating system and any data, you need to use the migrating option (see "Migrating to a RAID 0 Volume" on page 23 or "Migrating to a RAID 1 Volume" on page 24). Create a RAID 0 Volume or RAID 1 Volume only when:

You are adding two new drives to an existing single-drive computer (and the operating system is on the single drive), and you want to configure the two new drives into a RAID volume.

You already have a two-hard drive computer configured into an array, but you still have some space left on the array that you want to designate as a second RAID volume.

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