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English (4) Making a SATA Driver Disk To install operating system onto RAID disks successfully, you need to install the SATA RAID driver during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard disk may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID. First of all, copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver CD-ROM 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 CD-ROM in your system. Boot from the startup disk. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to the CD-ROM drive (example: D:\>). At the D:\> prompt, type the following two commands. Press ENTER after each command (Figure 10): cd bootdrv menu Step 2: When the controller menu (Figure 11) 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 11, press H to select (H) nVIDIA C51 Series Raid (XP) if you wish to install Windows XP (32-bit). Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press 0 to exit when finished. Figure 10 Figure 11 (Note) For users without a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the GIGABYTE motherboard driver CD-ROM. From the CDROM drive folder, double click the MENU.exe file in the BootDrv folder (Figure 12). A command prompt window will open similar to that in Figure 11. Figure 12 - 71 - Appendix

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Appendix
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English
(4)
Making a SATA Driver Disk
To install operating system onto RAID disks successfully, you need to install the SATA RAID driver
during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard disk may not be recognized during the Windows
setup process.
Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID. First of all, copy the driver for the SATA
controller from the motherboard driver CD-ROM 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 CD-ROM in your system.
Boot from the
startup disk. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to the CD-ROM drive (example: D:\>).
At the D:\>
prompt, type the following two commands. Press ENTER after each command (Figure 10):
cd bootdrv
(Note) For users without a startup disk:
Use an alternative system and insert the GIGABYTE motherboard driver CD-ROM.
From the CD-
ROM drive folder, double click the
MENU.exe
file in the
BootDrv
folder (Figure 12). A command
prompt window will open similar to that in Figure 11.
Figure 10
Figure 11
menu
Step 2: When the controller menu (Figure 11) 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 11, press H to select
(H) nVIDIA C51 Series Raid (XP)
if you
wish to install Windows XP (32-bit). Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file
to the floppy disk.
Press 0 to exit when finished.
Figure 12