Making A Sata Raid/Ahci Driver Diskette - Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H 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
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
that has CD-ROM support and a 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. For
example, from the menu in Figure 2, to install Windows XP to your RAID/AHCI hard drives, select (5)
SB700 SATA for the AMD SB700 SATA controller. To install Windows Vista to your RAID/AHCI hard
drives, select (6) SB700 SATA(Vista) for the AMD SB700 SATA controller. Your system will then
automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press <0> to exit when finished.
Figure 1
(Note 1) For AHCI drives, installation of Windows Vista does not require you to install the SATA AHCI
driver in advance during the OS installation process.
(Note 2) 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.
Figure 3
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. First of all, copy the driver
(Note 1)
. Prepare a startup disk
(Note 2)
Figure 2
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