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Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System
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5-1-2 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 7/Vista/XP. A. Installing Windows 7/Vista (The following instructions use Windows 7 as the example operating system.) Step 1: You need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver during the OS installation. Use an alternative system to copy the SATA RAID/AHCI driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive. Copy the Hw7 folder under BootDrv in the driver disk. Step 2: Boot from the Windows 7/Vista setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When the screen requesting you to load the driver appears, select Browse. Step 3: Then browse to the USB flash drive and select the location of the driver. The locations of the drivers are as follows: RAID driver for Windows 7 32-bit: Hw7\RAID\x86 RAID driver for Windows 7 64-bit: Hw7\RAID\x64 AHCI driver for Windows 7 32-bit: Hw7\AHCI\W7 AHCI driver for Windows 7 64-bit: Hw7\AHCI\W764A Step 4: When a screen as shown in Figure 1 appears, select AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller and click Next to load the driver and continue the OS installation. Figure 1 - 75 - Appendix