Installing The Sata Raid/Ahci Driver And Operating System - Gigabyte GA-P67A-D3-B3 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
As Windows 7 and Vista already include Intel SATA RAID/AHCI driver, you do not need to install separate
RAID/AHCI driver during the Windows installation process. After the operating system is installed, we recom-
mend that you install all required drivers from the motherboard driver disk using "Xpress Install" to ensure
system performance and compatibility.
B. Installing Windows XP
To install Windows XP, you need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver during the OS installation. Without the
driver, the hard drive(s) may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First, copy the driver from
the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. Refer to the methods below.
Method A:
For the Intel P67 Chipset, copy all files in the \BootDrv\iRST\32Bit folder to your floppy disk. To install Win-
dows 64-Bit, copy the files in the 64Bit folder.
Method B:
Steps:
1: Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk.
2: From your optical drive folder, double click the Menu.exe file in the BootDrv folder. A Command Prompt
window will open similar to that in Figure 1.
3: Insert the blank formatted disk. Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the
menu and press <Enter>. For example, from the menu in Figure 1, for the Intel P67 Chipset, select 8) Intel
Rapid Storage driver for 32bit system for Windows XP 32-bit operation system.
Your system will then automatically copy the driver files to the floppy disk. Press any key to exit when finished.
Figure 1
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