Making A Sata Raid/Ahci Driver Diskette - Gigabyte GA-D525TUD User Manual

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

(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 con-
troller 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 USB floppy disk drive, 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:
For the GIGABYTE SATA2/JMicron JMB363, type (Figure 1):
A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\gsata\32bit\*.*
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. 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 Figure 3,
• For the GIGABYTE SATA2/JMicron JMB363, select 3) GIGABYTE GSATA driver for 32bit system for
Windows 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
(Note) Change the directory from \32bit to \64bit for copying the Windows 64-bit driver.
Appendix
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Figure 3
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