Asus Z87-WS - Creating a RAID Driver Disk in Windows; Installing the RAID Driver During Windows os Installation

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Chapter 5: RAID congurations
Chapter 5
5.2.2 Creating a RAID driver disk in Windows
®
To create a RAID driver disk in Windows
®
:
1. Start Windows
®
.
2. Plug the USB oppy disk drive and insert a oppy disk.
3. Place the motherboard support DVD into the optical drive.
4. Go to the
Intel AHCI/RAID Driver menu then click Intel AHCI/RAID Driver path to
open the RAID driver folder.
5. Select
32bit or 64bit folder depending on your operating system. Copy the les of the
selected folder to the root path of your USB oppy disk drive.
Write-protect the oppy disk to avoid a computer virus infection.
5.2.3 Installing the RAID driver during Windows
®
OS
installation
To install the RAID driver for Windows
®
7:
1. During OS installation, click
Load Driver to allow you to select the installation media
containing the RAID driver.
2. Insert the USB ash drive with the RAID driver into the USB port or the support DVD
into the optical drive, and then click Browse.
3. Click the name of the device you’ve inserted, go to
Drivers > RAID, and then select
the RAID driver for the corresponding OS version. Click OK.
4. Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the installation.
Before loading the RAID driver from a USB ash drive, you have to use another computer
to copy the RAID driver from the support DVD to the USB ash drive.
To set up a Windows
®
UEFI operating system under RAID mode, ensure to load the UEFI
driver for your optical drive.