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5-1-3 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette for Windows XP
(Required for AHCI and RAID Mode)
To successfully install operating system onto SA TA hard drive(s) that is/are configured to RAID/AHCI
mode, you need to install the SA TA controller driver during the OS installation. Without the driver , the
hard drive may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First of all, copy the driver for
the SATA controller from the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. For installing W indows Vista, you
may directly load the SA TA RAID driver from the motherboard driver disk during the OS installation
process. For more details, refer to the next section, "5-1-3." See the instructions below about how to
copy the driver in MS-DOS mode
(Note)
. Prepare a startup disk that has CD-ROM support and two blank
formatted floppy disks.
Step 1: Insert the prepared startup disk and motherboard driver disk in your system. Boot from the startup
disk. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to your optical drive (example: D:\>). At the D:\> prompt, type the
following two commands. Press <Enter> after each command (Figure 1):
cd bootdrv
menu
Step 2: When the controller menu (Figure 2) appears, remove the startup disk and insert the blank
formatted disk. Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu. For
example, from the menu in Figure 2:
•
For AMD SB750 SATA controllers, select
5) SB700/750 SATA
for operating system .
• For GIGABYTE SATA2 SATA controller, select
1) GIGABYTE SATA-Driver(x86)
for Windows 32-bit
operating system or
2) GIGABYTE SATA-Driver(x64)
for Windows 64-bit operating system.
Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press <0> to exit
when finished.
(Note) For users without a startup disk:
Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. From your optical drive
folder, double click the
MENU.exe
file in the
BootDrv
folder (Figure 3). A command prompt
window will open similar to that in Figure 2.
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3