-69 -Appendix English 5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID Driver Diskette To successfully install operating system onto SATA hard drives that are configured to RAID mode, you need to install the SATA controller driver during the OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First of all, copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. See the instructions below about how to copy the driver in MS-DOS mode(Note). Prepare a startup disk that has CD-ROM support and a blank formatted floppy disk. A. Copying the driver for Windows XP Step 1: Insert the prepared startup disk and motherboard driver disk in your system. Boot from the startup disk. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to your optical drive (example: D:\>). At the D:\> prompt, type the following two commands. Press after each command (Figure 1): cd bootdrv menu Step 2: When the controller menu (Figure 2) appears, remove the startup disk and insert the blank formatted disk. Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu. For example, from the menu in Figure 2, press <1> to select 1)VT8237S_Raid for Windows operating system. Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press <0> to exit when finished. (Note) For users without a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. From your optical drive folder, double click the MENU.exe file in the BootDrv folder (Figure 3). A command prompt window will open similar to that in Figure 2. Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 GA-VT890P Motherboard - 70 English B. Copying the driver for Windows Vista Step 1: Insert the prepared startup disk and the motherboard driver disk into your system. Boot from the startup disk. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to your optical drive (example: D:\>). At the D:\> prompt, type the following command to enter the folder where the RAID driver is located. Press after entering the command (Figure 4): cd \chipset\via\via8237r\vraiddrv\drvdisk\vista\x86 (Note) The x86 folder contains the RAID driver for 32-bit Windows Vista; to install 64-bit Windows Vista, please change the directory to the x64 folder. Step 2: After entering the folder, type the following command to copy the driver to the location you wish to save the driver (e.g. A:) and press copy *.* a: After copying the driver, in the location where you save the driver (e.g. A:), you should see the driver files similar to that in Figure 5. D:\>cd \chipset\via\via8237r\vraiddrv\drvdisk\vista\x86 A:\>dir Volume in drive A has no label D:\CHIPSET\VIA\VIA8237R\VRAIDDRV\DRVDISK\VISTA\X86>copy *.* a: Directory of A:\ VIAMRAID CAT 11,382 04-11-07 10:47 VIAMRAID INF 5,576 03-21-07 18:37 VIAMRAID SYS 113,152 03-21-07 17:35 3 file(s) 130,110 bytes0 dir(s) 1,327,104 bytes freeA:\> Figure 4 Figure 5 (Note) For users without a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. In your optical drive folder, go the following directory: \Chipset\VIA\VIA8237R\VRAIDDrv\drvdisk\VISTA\x86 (Figure 6). Copy all the files in the folder to the location you want (e.g. floppy disk). Figure 6 -71 - Appendix English 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID Driver and Operating System Now that you have prepared the SATA RAID driver diskette and configured the required BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows Vista/XP/2000 onto your hard drive(s). The following is an example of Windows XP and Vista installation. A. Installing Windows XP Step 1: Restart your system to boot from the Windows XP setup disk and press as soon as you see the message "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" (Figure 1). After pressing , there will be a few moments of some files being loaded before you see the next screen. Windows Setup Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver. Figure 1 Step 2: When a screen similar to that below appears, insert the floppy disk containing the SATA RAID driver and press (Figure 2). Windows Setup Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices installed in your system, or you have chosen to manually specify an adapter. Currently, Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices(s) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, including those for which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device manufacturer, press S. * If you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional Device ENTER=Continue F3=Exit Figure 2 GA-VT890P Motherboard - 72 English Step 3: When Setup correctly recognizes the driver in the floppy disk, a controller menu similar to Figure 3 below will appear. Use the arrow keys to select one...
