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Chapter 4 Installing the Operating System and Drivers
4-1 Operating System Installation
With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install the operating system.
To install an operating system on a RAID volume, you need to install the Intel
®
RST VMD Controller driver first
during the OS installation process. Refer to the steps below:
Step 1:
Go to GIGABYTE's website, browse to the motherboard model's web page, download the Intel SATA Preinstall
driver file on the Support\Download\SATA RAID/AHCI page, unzip the file and copy the files to your USB thumb
drive.
Step 2:
Boot from the Windows setup disc and perform standard OS installation steps. When the screen requesting you
to load the driver appears, select
Browse
.
Step 3:
Insert the USB thumb drive and then browse to the location of the driver. When a screen as shown below
appears, select
Intel RST VMD Controller 467F
and click
Next
to load the driver and continue the OS installation.
