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Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s)
3-2 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System
With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install the operating system.
A. Installing Windows 8/7
(The following instructions use Windows 8 as the example operating system.)
Step 1:
You need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver during the OS installation. Use an alternative system to copy
the SATA RAID/AHCI driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive. Copy the
Hw8
folder under
BootDrv
in the driver disk.
Step 2:
Boot from the Windows 8 setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When the screen requesting
you to load the driver appears, select
Browse
.
Step 3:
Then browse to the USB flash drive and select the location of the driver. The locations of the drivers are as follows:
RAID driver for Windows 8 32-bit: Hw8\RAID\x86
RAID driver for Windows 8 64-bit: Hw8\RAID\x64
AHCI driver for Windows 8 32-bit: Hw8\AHCI\W8
AHCI driver for Windows 8 64-bit: Hw8\AHCI\W864A
For Windows 7, browse to the
Hw7
folder.
Step 4:
When a screen as shown in Figure 1 appears, select
AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller
and click
Next
to load the driver and continue the OS installation.
Figure 1
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