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(4) Making a SATA controller driver disk
To install Windows 2000/XP onto a SATA hard drive on the nVIDIA nForce3 250/Ultra or nVIDIA nForce2
MCP RAID SATA controller successfully, you need to install required driver for the SATA controller
during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive 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 drive icon and select
Open
(Figure 11).
Figure 12
Figure 11
Step 3: Go to the
BootDrv
folder and look for an executable program named MENU.
exe
(Figure 12).
