Making A Sata Raid/Ahci Driver Diskette - Gigabyte GA-M68SM-S2L User Manual

5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette

(Required for AHCI and RAID Mode)
To successfully install operating system onto SATA hard drive(s) that is/are configured to RAID/AHCI
mode, you need to install the SATA 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. See the instructions below about
how to copy the driver in MS-DOS mode
blank formatted floppy disk.
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. In the
example in Figure 2, the NVIDIA MCP68 DRIVER series are for the nVIDIA
630a chipset. For example, to install Windows XP (32-bit) onto the RAID drives, press <F> to select F)
NVIDIA MCP68 RAID DRIVER; to install Windows Vista (32-bit) onto the RAID drives, press <I> to
select I)NVIDIA MCP68 RAID DRIVER for VISTA(32Bit). Your system will then automatically zip and
transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press <0> to exit when finished.
Figure 1
(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.
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. Prepare a startup disk that has CD-ROM support and a
(Note)
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