Areca 24/4 Internal/External Port Pcie 3.0 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA Raid Controller 2Gb Cache - Manual (Page 110)

DRIVER INSTALLATION
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8. Click on “Next” again to accept the default partition configura-
tion, or refer to your Windows documentation to configure
partitions manually.
9. From this point on, simply follow the Microsoft Windows instal-
lation procedure. Follow the on-screen instructions, responding
as needed, to complete the installation.
10. After the installation is completed, reboot the system to load
the new driver/operating system.
11. See Chapter 5 in this manual to customize your RAID volume
sets using McRAID storage manager.
After you finish creating additional volume, the following steps
show how to make any new volumes or independent disks acces-
sible to Windows.
(a). Click “ Start” = => right-click “Computer ” and select
“ Manage ”.
(b). Click “ Disk Managemen t” in the left pane.
(c). Scroll down to the bottom of the middle pane.
Windows will display a list of new drives attached to your sys-
tem with a label such as “Disk 1” or “Disk 2”, etc.
(d). Right-click on the drive you want to partition and then again
to format it
(e). Once it’s formatted, Windows automatically assigns the next
available drive letter to it and then it will appear in Win-
dows Explorer.
4.2.2 Installing Controller on an Existing Win-
dows
In this scenario, you are installing the controller in an existing
Windows system. To install the driver:
1. Follow the instructions in Chapter 2, the Hardware Installation