ISonic K8NF4G-SATA2 manual Make a Sata / Sataii Driver Diskette, Set Up Bios

2.10 Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows XP 64-bit Without RAID Functions

If you just want to install Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows XP 64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, you don’t have to make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette. Besides, there is no need for you to change the BIOS setting. You can start to install Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows XP 64-bit on your system directly.

2.11 Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows XP 64-bit With RAID Functions

If you want to install Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows XP 64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow the below steps.

Before installing Windows 2000 to your system, your disk is supposed to include SP4. If there is no SP4 included in your disk, please visit the below website for proper procedures of making a SP4 disk: http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/ spdeploy.htm#the_integrated_installation_fmay

STEP 1: Make a SATA / SATAII Driver Diskette.

A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system.

B.During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11> key, and then a window for boot devices selection appears. Please select CD- ROM as the boot device.

C.When you see the message on the screen, “Do you want to generate Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?”, press <Y>.

D.Then you will see these messages,

Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive. WARNING! Formatting the floppy diskette will lose ALL data in it!

Start to format and copy files [YN]?

Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and press <Y>.

E.The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA /

SATAII drivers into the floppy diskette.

STEP 2: Set Up BIOS.

A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.

B.Set the “SATAII Operation Mode” option from [non-RAID] to [RAID].

STEP 3: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID configuration.

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