ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3: Installing OS on a HDD Larger Than 2TB

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ASRock  Z68 Extreme3 Gen3  Motherboard

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Installing OS on a HDD Larger Than 2TB

This motherboard is adopting UEFI BIOS that allows Windows

®

 OS to be installed 

on a large size HDD (>2TB). Please follow below procedure to install the operating 

system. 

1. Please make sure to use 

Windows

®

 Vista

TM

 64-bit (with SP1 or above)

 or    

Windows

®

 7 64-bit

. 

2. Press <F2> or <Delete> at system POST. Set 

AHCI Mode

 in UEFI Setup Utility > 

    Advanced > Storage Con

fi

 guration > SATA Mode. 

3. Choose the item 

“UEFI:xxx“

 to boot in UEFI Setup Utility > Boot > Boot Option #1.  

    (“xxx” is the device which contains your Windows

®

 installation 

fi

 les. Normally it is  

    an optical drive.) You can also press <F11> to launch boot menu at system POST 

    and choose the item 

“UEFI:xxx“

 to boot. 

4. Start Windows

®

 installation. Please be noted that you need to copy RAID driver 

    from our support CD to your USB 

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 ash 

fi

 rst. The RAID driver is located in the 

    following path of our support CD:

.. \Drivers\Serial ATA For Floppy Disk\Intel\v10.6.0.1002\AMD64

    Insert the Windows

®

 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 the USB 

fl

 ash to your system, and 

    click the “Load Driver” button to load the RAID driver. After that, you can continue

    the OS installation. Please do not remove your USB 

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 ash until the OS installation 

    process is 

fi

 nished.

6. If you install 

Windows

®

 7 64-bit

 OS, OS will be formatted by GPT (GUID Partition 

    Table). Please install the hot

fi

 x 

fi

 le from Microsoft

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: 

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979903