To exit the NVIDIA RAID setup utility, press in the main menu or + in the Array List screen. Now, you can proceed to the installation of the SATA controller driver and operating system. 5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID Driver Diskette To successfully install operating system onto RAID drive(s), you need to install the SATA controller driver during the OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First of all, copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. For installing Windows Vista, you also can copy the SATA controller driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive. See the instructions below about how to copy the driver in MS-DOS and Windows mode. In MS-DOS mode: Prepare a startup disk that has CD-ROM support and a blank formatted floppy disk. Steps: 1: Boot from the startup disk. 2: Remove the startup disk and insert the prepared floppy disk and the motherboard driver disk (here we assume that the drive letter for your optical drive is D:\). 3: At the A:\> prompt, type the following command. Press after the command. Refer to Table 1 for the SATA driver directories for different Windows operating systems and change the directory in the command according to the operating system to be installed. For example, to copy the RAID driver for Windows XP 32-bit operating system, type: A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\uda\winxp\sataraid\*.* Operating System Directory Windows XP 32-bit Bootdrv\UDA\WinXP\sataraid Windows XP 64-bit Bootdrv\UDA\Win64\sataraid Windows Vista 32-bit Bootdrv\UDA\WinVista\sataraid Windows Vista 64-bit Bootdrv\UDA\WinVista64\sataraid Windows 7 32-bit Bootdrv\UDA\Win7\sataraid Windows 7 64-bit Bootdrv\UDA\Win764\sataraid Figure 1 Table 1 In Windows mode: Steps: 1: Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. 2: From your optical drive folder, double click the Menu.exe file in the BootDrv folder (Figure 2). A Command Prompt window will open similar to that in Figure 3. 3: Insert the blank formatted disk. Depending on the operating system to be installed, select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu and press . For example, from the menu in Figure 3, select 2) NVIDIA RAID driver (XP) for the RAID driver for Windows XP 32-bit operating system. Your system will then automatically copy the driver files to the floppy disk. Press any key to exit when finished. Figure 3 Figure 2 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID Driver and Operating System With the SATA RAID driver diskette and correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows Vista/XP onto your hard drive(s). The followings are examples of Windows XP and Vista installation. A. Installing Windows XP Step 1: Restart your system to boot from the Windows XP setup disk and press as soon as you see the message "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" (Figure 1). A screen will then appear asking you to specify additional device. Windows Setup Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver. Figure 1 Step 2: The screen displays two drivers, both of which need to be installed. First select NVIDIA RAID Driver and press . On the next screen, press to return to the screen in Figure 2. Then select NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller and press . When both of the two drivers appear on the confirmation screen, press to continue the driver installation. When completed, proceed with the Windows XP installation. Windows Setup You have chosen to configure a SCSI Adapter for use with Windows, using a device support disk provided by an adapter manufacturer. Select the SCSI Adapter you want from the following list, or press ESC to return to the previous screen. NVIDIA RAID Driver (required) NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) ENTER=Select F3=Exit Figure 2 Step 3: On the next screen, press to continue the driver installation. After the driver installation, you can proceed with the Windows XP installation. B. Installing Windows Vista 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). Figure 3 Step 2: Insert the motherboard driver disk (Method A) or the removable storage device such as USB flash drive that contains the SATA RAID driver (Method B), then specify the location of the driver (Figure 4). Note: For users using a SATA optical drive, be sure to copy the driver files from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive before installing Windows Vista (go to the BootDrv\UDA\WinVista folder and save the whole sataraid folder to the USB flash drive). Then use Method B to load the driver. Method A: Insert the motherboard driver disk into your system and browse to the following directory: BootDrv\UDA\WinVista\sa...
