Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2 Manual - Page 70

5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID Driver Diskette (For Windows XP and 2000) To successfully install Windows XP/2000 onto SATA hard drive(s) that is/are configured to RAID 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. 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 the motherboard driver disk for Windows XP 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 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. In the example in Figure 2, the NVIDIA MCP61 Series Raid series are for the NVIDIA® GeForce 6100/ nForce 430 chipset. For example, to install Windows XP (32-bit) onto the RAID drives, press to select A)nVIDIA MCP61 Series Raid(XP). The B)nVIDIA MCP61 Series Raid(64Bit) is for Windows XP 64-bit and 9)nVIDIA MCP61 Series Raid(2K) for Windows 2000.Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press to exit when finished. Figure 1 Figure 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. GA-M61PME-S2 Motherboard Figure 3 - 70 -