Gigabyte GA-F2A85XM-HD3 User Manual - Page 47

8. After the creation is complete, the screen will return to LD View Menu where you will see the newlycreated array. 9. Press to return to Main Menu and press again if you want to exit the RAID BIOS utility. Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette Before installing Windows XP, connect a USB floppy disk drive to your computer first because you need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver from a floppy disk that contains the driver during the OS installation. To copy the RAID/AHCI driver for Windows XP, copy all files in the \BootDrv\Hxp folder in the motherboard driver disk to your floppy disk. To install Windows 7/Vista, you also need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver during the OS installation. To copy the RAID/AHCI driver for Windows 7, copy the whole Hw7 folder under the BootDrv folder in the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive. Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System A. Installing Windows XP Restart your system to boot from the Windows XP setup disk and press as soon as you see the message "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver." Insert the floppy disk containing the SATA RAID/AHCI driver. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the driver that suits your operating system. When completed, proceed with the Windows XP installation. B. Installing Windows 7/Vista (The following instructions use Windows 7 as the example operating system.) Boot from the Windows 7 setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When the screen requesting you to load the driver appears, select Browse. Then browse to the USB flash drive that contains the driver 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 After loading the driver, continue the OS installation. - 47 -