Making A Sata Raid Driver Diskette - Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4L User Manual

5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID Driver Diskette

To successfully install operating system onto SATA hard drives that are configured to RAID 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. First of all, copy the driver 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
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. In the
example in Figure 2, the nVIDIA C51 Series drivers are for the nVIDIA
example, to install Windows XP (32-bit) onto the RAID drives, press <D> to select D)nVIDIA C51
Series Raid(XP). Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk.
Press <0> to exit when finished.
Figure 1
(Note) 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.
GA-N650SLI-DS4L Motherboard
. Prepare a startup disk that has CD-ROM support and a blank
(Note)
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