Making A Sata Raid/Ahci Driver Diskette For Windows Xp - Gigabyte GA-M68M-S2 User Manual

5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette for Windows XP

(Required for AHCI and RAID Mode)
To successfully install operating system onto SATA hard drive(s) that is/are configured to RAID/AHCI
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. For installing Windows Vista, you also can
copy the SATA controller driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive. See the instructions
below about how to copy the driver in MS-DOS and Windows mode.
In MS-DOS mode:
Prepare a startup disk that has CD-ROM support and a blank formatted floppy disk.
Steps:
1: Boot from the startup disk.
2: Remove the startup disk and insert the prepared floppy disk and the motherboard driver disk (here we
assume that the drive letter for your optical drive is D:\).
3: At the A:\> prompt, type the following command. Press <Enter> after the command (Figure 1):
A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\uda\winxp\sataraid\*.*
Figure 1
In Windows mode:
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 (Figure 2). A
Command Prompt window will open similar to that in Figure 3.
3: Insert the blank formatted disk. Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from
the menu. For example, from the menu in Figure 3, 2) NVIDIA RAID driver(XP) for Windows
32-bit operating system or 4) NVIDIA RAID driver(XP 64Bit) for Windows 64-bit.
Your system will then automatically copy the driver files to the floppy disk. Press any key to exit when
finished.
Figure 2
(Note) Change the directory from \winxp to \win64 if you wish to copy the Windows 64-bit driver.
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Figure 3
(Note)