Making A Sata Raid Driver Diskette; Installing The Sata Raid Driver And Operating System - Gigabyte GA-880GM-D2H User Manual

Making a SATA RAID Driver Diskette

Copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk (for Windows XP) or
a USB flash drive (for Windows 7/Vista). For example, to copy the RAID driver for Windows XP 32-bit operat-
ing system, copy the driver from the following directory to your floppy disk: \BootDrv\SBxxx\x86. (To install
Windows 64-bit, copy the files in the x64 folder.)

Installing the SATA RAID Driver and Operating System

A. Installing Windows XP
Before installing Windows XP, connect a USB floppy disk drive to your computer. Restart your system to boot
from the Windows XP setup disk and press <F6> as soon as you see the message "Press F6 if you need to
install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver." Insert the floppy disk containing the SATA controller driver. Follow
the on-screen instructions to install the two drivers displayed. 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 floppy disk/USB flash drive (for users using a SATA optical drive) containing the
driver or insert the motherboard driver disk. For Windows 32-bit, browse to \BootDrv\SBxxxW7\RAID\W7 to
load the driver and continue the OS installation. For Windows 64-bit, browse to \BootDrv\SBxxxW7\RAID\
W764A to load the driver and continue the OS installation.
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