Intel Matrix Storage Manager User's Manual

Intel® Matrix Storage Manager Installation

6 Intel® Matrix Storage

Manager Installation

After installing an operating system onto a RAID volume or on a Serial ATA hard drive when in

RAID or AHCI mode, the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager can be loaded from within Windows.

This installs the user interface (i.e. Intel® Matrix Storage Console), the tray icon service, and the

monitor service onto the system, allowing you to monitor the health of your RAID volume and/or

hard drives. This is not required; however, it is recommended.

This method can also be used to upgrade to a newer version of the Intel® Matrix Storage

Manager.

6.1 Installation Caution

Caution: The Intel® Matrix Storage Manager driver may be used to operate the hard drive from which the

system is booting or a hard drive that contains important data. For this reason, you cannot remove

or un-install this driver from the system; however, you will have the ability to un-install all other

non-driver components.

The following non-driver components can be un-installed:

Intel® Matrix Storage Consolex

Help documentation

Start Menu shortcuts

System tray icon service

RAID monitor service

6.2 Where to Obtain Intel® Matrix Storage

Manager

If a CD-ROM was included with your motherboard or system, it should include the Intel® Matrix

Storage Manager.

The Intel® Matrix Storage Manager can also be downloaded from the following Intel website:

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=2101

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