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Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette

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5-1-3 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. 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 disk 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 and press . For example, from the menu in Figure 2: • For Intel ICH10R SATA controllers, select 1)Intel Matrix Storage driver for 32bit system for Windows 32-bit operating system or 2)Intel Matrix Storage driver for 64bit system for Windows 64-bit. • For GIGABYTE SATA2 SATA controller, select 3)GIGABYTE GSATA driver for 32bit system for Windows 32-bit operating system or 4)GIGABYTE GSATA driver for 64bit system for Windows 64-bit. Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press any key 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. Figure 3 - 101 - Appendix

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Appendix
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5-1-3
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. 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 disk 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 <Enter> 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 and press
<Enter>. For example, from the menu in Figure 2:
•
For Intel ICH10R SATA controllers, select
1)Intel Matrix Storage driver for 32bit system
for
Windows 32-bit operating system
or
2)Intel Matrix Storage driver for 64bit system
for Windows
64-bit.
•
For GIGABYTE SATA2 SATA controller, select
3)GIGABYTE GSATA driver for 32bit system
for
Windows 32-bit operating system or
4)GIGABYTE GSATA driver for 64bit system
for Windows
64-bit.
Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press any key to
exit when finished.
(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.
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3