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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 As Windows 7 and Vista already include Intel SATA RAID/AHCI driver, you do not need to install separate RAID/AHCI driver during the Windows installation process. After the operating system is installed, we recommend that you install all required drivers from the motherboard driver disk using "Xpress Install" to ensure system performance and compatibility. B. Installing Windows XP To install Windows XP, you need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver during the OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive(s) may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First, copy the driver from the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. Refer to the methods below. Method A: For the Intel P67 Chipset, copy all files in the \BootDrv\iRST\32Bit folder to your floppy disk. To install Windows 64-Bit, copy the files in the 64Bit folder. Method B: Steps: 1: Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. 2: From your optical drive folder, double click the Menu.exe file in the BootDrv folder. A Command Prompt window will open similar to that in Figure 1. 3: Insert the blank formatted disk. Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu and press . For example, from the menu in Figure 1, for the Intel P67 Chipset, select 8) Intel Rapid Storage driver for 32bit system for Windows XP 32-bit operation system. Your system will then automatically copy the driver files to the floppy disk. Press any key to exit when finished. Figure 1 - 83 - Appendix