Asus Crosshair III Formula - Manual (Page 156)

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4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk
A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing a Windows ® operating
system on a hard disk drive that is included in a RAID set.
• The motherboard does not provide a floppy drive connector. You have
to use a USB floppy disk drive when creating a SATA RAID driver disk.
• Windows ® �P may not recognize the USB floppy disk drive due to
Windows ® XP limitation. To work around this OS limitation, refer to section
4.5.3 Using a USB floppy disk drive.
4.5.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS
To create a RAID/SATA driver disk without entering the OS
1. Boot your computer.
2. Press <Del> during POST to enter the BIOS setup utility.
3. Set the optical drive as the primary boot device.
4. Insert the support DVD into the optical drive.
5. Save changes and exit BIOS.
6. When the Make Disk menu appears, press <a> or <b> to create a 32/64bit
ATI RAID/AHCI controller driver disk for Windows XP/Vista.
7. Insert a formatted floppy disk into the floppy drive then press <Enter>.
8. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the process.
4.5.2 Creating a RAID/SATA driver disk in Windows ®
To create a RAID driver disk in Windows ®
1. Start Windows ® .
2. Place the motherboard support DVD into the optical drive.
3. Go to the Make Disk menu, and then click ATI RAID/AHCI 32/64bit WinXP/
Vista Driver to create a RAID driver disk.
4. Insert a floppy disk into the floppy disk drive.
5. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the process.
Write�protect the floppy disk to avoid a computer virus infection.
4.5.3 Installing the RAID driver during Windows ® OS
installation
To install the RAID driver in Windows ® XP
1. During the OS installation, the system prompts you to press the F6 key to
install third-party SCSI or RAID driver.
2. Press <F6>, and then insert the floppy disk with RAID driver into the floppy
disk drive.