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5-5 Existing Windows XP with RAID built as data storage

When you already have a Windows XP system running at a traditional IDE hard disk,

and you want to keep it unchanged, but you also want to expand the system with some

SATA hard disks, to come out a new RAID system for data storage. In this case, you

need to install the Intel

Matrix Storage Manager into your Windows XP system rst.

The conditions to install Intel

driver successfully, you need :

1. BIOS SATA mode must be set to [AHCI] or [RAID].

2. You'd better have an IDE CD drive.

If you have a SATA CD drive and the BIOS SATA mode was set to [AHCI] or [RAID],

in Windows XP platform, this CD drive can not be recognized if Intel

Matrix Storage

Manager has not been installed. If the system can not recognize it, how can the driver

be installed ? This is the reason why we need to come out a standard procedure for

SATA CD drive users.

The correct steps are :

1. In current Windows XP system (no matter what SATA or IDE CD drive you have),

browse the CD, copy the whole directory of Intel

Matrix Storage Manager setup

program to your desktop. For example, drag and copy directory "\Driver\Intel\G45_

G43_P45\RAID\Utility" to your desktop.

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