Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P user manual Making a Sata RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette for Windows XP

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

(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 may directly load the SATA RAID driver from the motherboard driver disk during the OS installation process. For more details, refer to the next section, "5-1-3." 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 one blank formatted floppy disks.

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. For example, from the menu in Figure 2, to install Windows XP to your RAID/AHCI hard drives, select 3) SB700/710/750 SATA Driver for XP and press <Enter>. Your system will then automatically copy this driver file to the floppy disk. Press any key 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.

Figure 3

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