3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User GuideviBoot the system from the Windows 98/ME diskette . . . . . . 85Partition the boot device using fdisk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Restart the machine and format the boot device . . . . . . . . . . 86Continue the standard Windows 98/ME installation . . . . . . 86Partition and format other devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87RAID array initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87Install the 3DM Disk Management Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Installing the ATA RAID controller on systems that bootfrom a different device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Create disk arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Install the 3ware driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Partition and format units on ATA RAID controller . . . . . . 90RAID array initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Install the 3DM disk management utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Replacing an existing ATA RAID controller with a new versionof the controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Upgrade the 3ware driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Install/Upgrade the 3ware driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Remove the existing Escalade ATA RAID Controller andinstall the new Escalade ATA RAID Controller . . . . . . . 98Reboot the machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98Windows® 2000 or Windows XP Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99Installing a drive to an existing ATA RAID controller . . . . . 101Boot the machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Installing the ATA RAID controller while installingWindows 2000 or Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Create disk arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Installing with the Initial Operating System Build . . . . . . . 102Continue with Windows 2000 or XP installation . . . . . . . . 102Reboot the machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103RAID array initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Install the 3DM disk management utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Installing the ATA RAID controller on systems that bootfrom a different device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Create disk arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
