Installing The Sata Raid/Ahci Driver And Operating System - Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H 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/XP.
A. Installing Windows 7
As Windows 7 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 recommend that you
install all required drivers from the motherboard driver disk using "Xpress Install" to ensure system performance
and compatibility.
B. Installing Windows XP
driver, the hard drive(s) may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First, copy the driver from
Method A:
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 1.
3:
A). 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 Z77/H77, select 8) Intel Rapid Storage driver for 32bit system for Windows XP 32-bit
operating system.
\BootDrv\iRST\32Bit
64Bit folder.
Figure 1
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BootDrv folder. A Command Prompt
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