Gigabyte GA-M52S-S3P Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette, Required for AHCI and RAID Mode

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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. See the instructions below about how to copy the driver in MS-DOS mode(Note). Prepare a startup disk that has CD-ROM support and a blank formatted floppy disk.

Step 1: Insert the prepared startup disk and motherboard driver disk in your system. Boot from the

startup disk. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to your optical drive (example: D:\>). At the D:\> prompt, type the following two commands. Press <Enter> after each command (Figure 1):

cd bootdrv

menu

Step 2: When the controller menu (Figure 2) appears, remove the startup disk and insert the blank formatted disk. Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu. In the example in Figure 2, the NVIDIA MCP65 DRIVER series are for the nVIDIA® nForce 520 chipset. For example, to install Windows XP (32-bit) onto the RAID drives, press <F> to select F)NVIDIA MCP65 RAID DRIVER; to install Windows Vista (32-bit) onto the AHCI drives, press <I> to select I)NVIDIA MCP65 AHCI DRIVER for VISTA(32Bit). Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press <0> to exit when finished.

Figure 1Figure 2

(Note) For users without a startup disk:

Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. From your optical drive folder, double click the MENU.exe file in the BootDrv folder (Figure 3). A command prompt window will open similar to that in Figure 2.

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