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5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette (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 also can copy the SATA controller driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive. See the instructions below about how to copy the driver in MS-DOS and Windows mode. In MS-DOS mode: Prepare a startup disk that has CD-ROM support and a blank formatted floppy disk. Steps: 1: Boot from the startup disk. 2: Remove the startup disk and insert the prepared floppy disk and the motherboard driver disk (here we as- sume that the drive letter for your optical drive is D:\). 3: At the A:\> prompt, type the following command. Press after the command (Figure 1): A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\sb7xx\x86\*.* (Note) Figure 1 (Note) Type the driver directory based on the operating system to be installed. Refer to the following table for the SATA driver directories for different Windows operating systems. Operating System Windows XP 32-bit Windows XP 64-bit Windows Vista 32-bit Windows Vista 64-bit Windows 7 32-bit (AHCI mode) Windows 7 32-bit (RAID mode) Windows 7 64-bit (AHCI mode) Windows 7 64-bit (RAID mode) Directory Bootdrv\SB7xx\x86 Bootdrv\SB7xx\x64 Bootdrv\SB7xxV\LH Bootdrv\SB7xxV\LH64A Bootdrv\SB7xxW7\AHCI\x86 Bootdrv\SB7xxW7\RAID\x86 Bootdrv\SB7xxW7\AHCI\x64 Bootdrv\SB7xxW7\RAID\x64 - 75 - Appendix

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Appendix
5-1-2
Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette
(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 also can copy the SATA con
-
troller driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive. See the instructions below about how to
copy the driver in MS-DOS and Windows mode.
In MS-DOS mode:
Prep
are a startup disk that has CD-ROM support and a blank formatted floppy disk.
Steps:
1: Boot from the startup disk.
2: Remove the startup
disk and insert the prepared floppy disk and the motherboard driver disk (here we as
-
sume that the drive letter for your optical drive is D:\).
3: At the A:\> prompt, type the following command. Press <Enter> after the command (Figure 1):
A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\sb7xx\x86\*.*
(Note)
Figure 1
(Note)
Type the driver directory based on the operating system to be installed. Refer to the following table
for the SATA driver directories for different Windows operating systems.
Operating System
Directory
Windows XP 32-bit
Bootdrv\SB7xx\x86
Windows XP 64-bit
Bootdrv\SB7xx\x64
Windows Vista 32-bit
Bootdrv\SB7xxV\LH
Windows Vista 64-bit
Bootdrv\SB7xxV\LH64A
Windows 7 32-bit (AHCI mode)
Bootdrv\SB7xxW7\AHCI\x86
Windows 7 32-bit (RAID mode)
Bootdrv\SB7xxW7\RAID\x86
Windows 7 64-bit (AHCI mode)
Bootdrv\SB7xxW7\AHCI\x64
Windows 7 64-bit (RAID mode)
Bootdrv\SB7xxW7\RAID\x64