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2.14 Driver Installation Guide
To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your optical
drive fi rst. Then, the drivers compatible to your system can be auto-detected and
listed on the support CD driver page. Please follow the order from up to bottom side
to install those required drivers. Therefore, the drivers you install can work properly.
2.15 Installing Windows
®
7 / 7 64-bit With RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows
®
7 / 7 64-bit OS on your SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 HDDs
with RAID functions, please follow the steps below.
RAID mode is not supported under Windows
®
XP / XP 64-bit.
STEP 1: Set up UEFI.
A. Enter UEFI SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen Storage Confi guration.
B. Set the option “SATA Mode Selection” to [RAID].
STEP 2: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID confi guration.
Before you start to confi gure the RAID function, you need to check the installation
guide in the Support CD for proper confi guration. Please refer to the document in
the Support CD, “Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Confi guration”,
which is located in the folder at the following path:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
STEP 3: Install Windows
®
7 / 7 64-bit OS on your system.
After the installation of Windows
®
7 / 7 64-bit OS, if you want to manage RAID functions,
you are allowed to use both “RAID Installation Guide” and “Intel Rapid Storage Informa-
tion” for RAID confi guration. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, “Guide to
SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Confi guration”, which is located in the folder at the
following path: .. \ RAID Installation Guide and the document in the support CD, “Guide
to Intel Rapid Storage”, which is located in the folder at the following path: .. \ Intel Rapid
Storage Information
If you want to use “Intel Rapid Storage” in Windows
®
environment, install
“SATAII driver” from the Support CD again so that “Intel Rapid Storage”
will be installed to your system as well.