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(4) Making a SATA Driver Disk
To install operating system onto a serial ATA hard disk successfully, you need to install the SATA controller driver during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard disk may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First of all, copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver
Step 1: Insert the prepared startup disk and motherboard driver
startup disk. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to the
cd bootdrv
menu
Step 2: When the controller menu (Figure 12) appears, remove the startup disk and insert the blank formatted disk. Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu(Note 2). For example, from the menu in Figure 12, press C to select C) nVIDIA CK804 Series Raid(XP) if you wish to install Windows XP. Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press 0 to exit when finished.
Figure 11Figure 12
(Note 1) For users without a startup disk:
Use an alternative system and insert the GIGABYTE motherboard driver
A command prompt window will open similar to that in Figure 12.
Figure 13
(Note 2) Select the driver by pressing the corresponding letter according to the operating system you wish to install.
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