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
Method A:
For the Marvell 88SE9172,
For AHCI mode, depending on whether you want to install the 32- or 64-bit version,
AHCI\Win32 or AHCI\win64 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
window will open similar to that in Figure 2.
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 2,
For the Marvell 88SE9172, select 7) Marvell RAID driver. (For AHCI drive(s), select Marvell AHCI
driver.)
\BootDrv\Marvell\RAID
BootDrv folder. A Command Prompt
Figure 2
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