Installing The Sata Raid/Ahci Driver And Operating System - Gigabyte GA-F2A85X-UP4 User Manual

5-1-2 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System

With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 7/Vista/XP.
A. Installing Windows 7/Vista
(The following instructions use Windows 7 as the example operating system.)
Step 1:
You need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver during the OS installation. Use an alternative system to copy
the SATA RAID/AHCI driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive. Copy the Hw7 folder under
BootDrv in the driver disk.
Step 2:
Boot from the Windows 7/Vista setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When the screen requesting
you to load the driver appears, select Browse.
Step 3:
Then browse to the USB flash drive and select the location of the driver. The locations of the drivers are as follows:
RAID driver for Windows 7 32-bit: Hw7\RAID\x86
RAID driver for Windows 7 64-bit: Hw7\RAID\x64
AHCI driver for Windows 7 32-bit: Hw7\AHCI\W7
AHCI driver for Windows 7 64-bit: Hw7\AHCI\W764A
Step 4:
When a screen as shown in Figure 1 appears, select AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller and click Next
to load the driver and continue the OS installation.
Figure 1
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