Making A Sata Raid Driver Diskette - Gigabyte GA-M52LT-D3 User Manual

5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID Driver Diskette

To successfully install operating system onto RAID drive(s), 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 as-
sume that the drive letter for your optical drive is D:\).
3: At the A:\> prompt, type the following command. Press <Enter> after the command. Refer to Table 1 for
the SATA driver directories for different Windows operating systems and change the directory in the com-
mand according to the operating system to be installed. For example, to copy the RAID driver for Windows
XP 32-bit operating system, type:
A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\uda\winxp\sataraid\*.*
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. Depending on the operating system to be installed, select the controller driver
by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu and press <Enter>. For example, from the menu in Fig-
ure 3, select 2) NVIDIA RAID driver (XP) for the RAID driver for Windows XP 32-bit operating system. Your
system will then automatically copy the driver files to the floppy disk. Press any key to exit when finished.
Figure 2
Appendix
Figure 1
Operating System
Windows XP 32-bit
Windows XP 64-bit
Windows Vista 32-bit
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows 7 32-bit
Windows 7 64-bit
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Directory
Bootdrv\UDA\WinXP\sataraid
Bootdrv\UDA\Win64\sataraid
Bootdrv\UDA\WinVista\sataraid
Bootdrv\UDA\WinVista64\sataraid
Bootdrv\UDA\Win7\sataraid
Bootdrv\UDA\Win764\sataraid
Table 1
Figure 3