Installing 3ware Drivers and Software under Windows
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3 Insert a USB drive into your computer.
4 Unzip the driver file to the USB drive.
Installing the 3ware Driver and Windows on a New RAID
Unit
If you want to install Windows on a new drive configuration managed by the
3ware RAID controller, follow the instructions in this section.
If Windows is already installed on another drive, turn to “Installing the 3ware
Driver and Windows on a New RAID Unit” on page 345.
To install Windows 2003 and the 3ware driver
1 Boot from the Windows Server 2003 installation CD and press F6 when
you see the message: “Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or
RAID driver” at the bottom of the display.
2 When you see the message: “Setup could not determine the type of one or
more mass storage devices or you have chosen to manually specify an
adapter…”
Type S to specify that you have an additional 3ware RAID controller.
3 Insert the 3ware driver disk and press Enter.
4 When a box with LSI 3ware 9750 RAID Controller appears, press
Enter to select it.
5Type S if you have additional devices to add. Otherwise, press Enter.
6 If the “Digital Signature Not Found” message appears, click Ye s to
continue the installation.
(If there are multiple controllers in the system, you will see this message
once for each controller.)
7 Continue with the normal Windows installation at this point. There are no
instructions after installing the driver that are specific to 3ware. If you
need additional instructions, refer to the Windows documentation
supplied by Microsoft.
8 Follow the instructions under “Partitioning, Formatting, and Mounting
Units” on page 90.
To install Windows Server 2008, Vista, or Windows 7 and the
3ware driver
1 Boot from the Windows Server 2008, Vista, or Windows 7 installation
CD and specify the following: Language to Install, Time and currency
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