Making A Sata Raid Driver Diskette; Installing The Sata Raid Driver And Operating System - Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P User Manual

Making a SATA RAID Driver Diskette

Before installing Windows XP, connect a USB floppy disk drive to your computer first because you need to in-
stall the SATA RAID/AHCI driver from a floppy disk that contains the driver during the OS installation. To copy
the RAID driver for Windows XP, copy all files in the \BootDrv\SBxxx\x86 folder in the motherboard driver
disk to your floppy disk. (To install Windows 64-bit, copy the files in the x64 folder.)

Installing the SATA RAID Driver and Operating System

A. Installing Windows XP
Restart your system to boot from the Windows XP setup disk and press <F6> as soon as you see the mes-
sage "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver." Insert the floppy disk containing the
SATA RAID driver. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the driver that suits your operating system.
When completed, proceed with the Windows XP installation.
B. Installing Windows 7/Vista
Restart your system to boot from the Windows 7/Vista setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps.
Select Load Driver. Insert the motherboard driver disk and then browse to the location of the driver. Then fol-
low the on-screen instructions to load the driver. The locations of the drivers for Windows 7 are as follows:
RAID driver for Windows 32-bit: \BootDrv\SBxxxW7\RAID\W7
RAID driver for Windows 64-bit: \BootDrv\SBxxxW7\RAID\W764A
After loading the driver, continue the OS installation.
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