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2.9 Making An SATA Driver Diskette

If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your SATA HDDs, you will

need to make an SATA driver diskette before you start the OS installation.

STEP 1: Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system.

(Do NOT insert any floppy diskette into the floppy drive at this moment!)

STEP 2: 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.

STEP 3: When you see the message on the screen, “Do you want to generate

Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?”, press <Y>.

STEP 4: 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>.

STEP 5: The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA drivers

into the floppy diskette.

Once you have the SATA driver diskette ready, you may start to install Windows

2000 / Windows XP on your system directly without setting the RAID configura-

tion on your system, or you may start to use “VT8237 SATA RAID BIOS” to set

RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD configuration before you install the OS. Before you start

to configure the RAID function, you need to check the installation guide in the

Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the document in the Support

CD, “Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration”, which is

located in the folder at the following path:

.. \ SATA RAID BIOS

You may also set the RAID configuration by using “VIA RAID Tool” in Windows

environment. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, “Guide to VIA RAID

Tool”, which is located in the folder at the following path:

.. \ VIA RAID Tool

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