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5-1-2 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System
With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 7/XP.
A. Installing Windows 7
As Windows 7 already include Intel SATA RAID/AHCI driver, you do not need to install separate RAID/AHCI
driver during the Windows installation process. After the operating system is installed, we recommend that you
install all required drivers from the motherboard driver disk using "Xpress Install" to ensure system performance
and compatibility.
Figure 1
B. Installing Windows XP
Before installing Windows XP, connect a USB floppy disk drive to your computer first because you need to install
the SATA RAID/AHCI driver from a floppy disk that contains the driver during the OS installation. Without the
driver, the hard drive(s) may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First, copy the driver from
the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. Refer to the methods below.
Method A:
For the Intel Z77, copy all files in the \BootDrv\iRST\32Bit folder to your floppy disk. To install Windows
64-Bit, copy the files in the 64Bit folder.
Method B:
Steps:
Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. 1:
From your optical drive folder, double click the 2: Menu.exe file in the BootDrv folder. A Command Prompt
window will open similar to that in Figure 1.
nsert the blank formatted disk (if you're using a USB floppy disk drive, make sure it is designated as drive 3:
A). Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu and press <Enter>. For
example, from the menu in Figure 1,
For the Intel Z77, select • 8) Intel Rapid Storage driver for 32bit system for Windows XP 32-bit operating
system.
Your system will then automatically copy the driver files to the floppy disk. Press any key to exit when finished.