Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H user manual Installing Windows Vista Note

B. Installing Windows Vista (Note)

(The procedure below assumes that only one RAID array exists in your system.)

Step 1:

Restart your system to boot from the Windows Vista setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When a screen similar to that below appears (RAID hard drive(s) will not be detected at this stage), select Load Driver. (Figure 7).

Figure 7

Step 2:

Specify the location where the driver is saved. Refer to the following two ways:

Method A:

Insert the motherboard driver disk for Windows Vista into your system. For Windows Vista 32-bit, browse to the following directory:

\Chipset\IDE\Vista\MCP73_32\IDE\WinVista\sataraid

For Windows Vista 64-bit, browse to:

\Chipset\IDE\Vista\MCP73_64\IDE\WinVista64\sataraid

Method B:

If you have copied the SATA RAID driver to a floppy disk referring to the instructions in "5-1-2," insert the floppy disk (Figure 8) and browse to the floppy disk.

Figure 8

(Note) For AHCI drives, installation of Windows Vista does not require you to install the SATA AHCI driver in advance during the OS installation process.

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