ASRock FM2A75M-ITX - Manual (Page 23)

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2.7 Driver Installation Guide
To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your optical
drive first. Then, the drivers compatible to your system can be auto-detected and
listed on the support CD driver page. Please follow the order from up to bottom side
to install those required drivers. Therefore, the drivers you install can work properly.
2.9 Installing Windows ® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista TM /
Vista TM 64-bit Without RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows ® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista TM / Vista TM 64-bit on
your SATA3 HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below steps.
2.8 Installing Windows ® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista TM /
Vista TM 64-bit With RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows ® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista TM / Vista TM 64-bit on a
RAID disk composed of 2 or more SATA3 HDDs with RAID functions, please follow
below steps.
STEP 1: Set up UEFI.
A.
Enter UEFI SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen Storage
Configuration.
B. Set the “SATA Mode” option to [RAID].
STEP 2: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID configuration.
Before you start to configure RAID function, you need to check the RAID installation
guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the BIOS RAID
installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
STEP 3: Install Windows
® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit / Vista TM / Vista TM 64-bit OS on
your system.
Use the option “Easy RAID Installer“ in UEFI setup utility to copy the RAID drivers
to your USB flash disk. Insert the Windows
® OS optical disk into the optical drive to
boot your system, and follow the instruction to install OS on your system. When you
see “Where do you want to install Windows?” page, please insert your USB flash
disk to your system, and click the “Load Driver” button to load the RAID drivers.
After that, you can continue the OS installation.