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Figure 9
(4) Making a SATA controller driver disk
To install Windows 2000/XP onto a SATA hard disk on the ICH5R controller suc
c
essfully, you need to
install required driver for the SATA controller on your motherboard during OS installation. Without the driver,
the hard disk may not be recognized during the Windows setup process.
First of all,
you need
to copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver CD to a floppy
disk. The instructions below explain how to copy the driver.
Step 1: Find an available system and insert the motherboard driver CD into the CD-ROM drive. The
installation utility will appear automatically. Quit the installation utility first.
Step 2: Go to
My Computer
and right-click the CD-ROM icon (this procedure assumes Drive D) and
select
Open
(Figure 8).
Then you should see folders and files contained in the driver CD. Go to the
BootDrv
folder and look for
a file named Menu.
exe
(Figure 9).
