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B. Installing Windows Vista
(The procedure below assumes that only one RAID array exists in your system.)
Step 1:
Restart your system to boot from the Windows Vista setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps.
When a screen similar to that below appears (RAID hard drive will not be detected at this stage), select Load
Driver (Figure 3).
Step 2:
Insertthemotherboarddriverdisk(MethodA)ortheremovablestoragedevicesuchasUSBashdrivethat
contains the SATA RAID driver (Method B), then specify the location of the driver (Figure 4). Note: For users
usingaSATAopticaldrive,besuretocopythedriverlesfromthemotherboarddriverdisktoaUSBash
drive before installing Windows Vista (go to the BootDrv\UDA\WinVista folder and save the whole sataraid
foldertotheUSBashdrive).ThenuseMethodBtoloadthedriver.
Method A:
Insert the motherboard driver disk into your system and browse to the following directory:
BootDrv\UDA\WinVista\sataraid
For Windows Vista 64-bit, browse to BootDrv\UDA\WinVista64\sataraid.
Method B:
InserttheUSBashdrivecontainingthedriverlesandbrowsetothesataraid folder.
Figure 3
Figure 4