Gigabyte GA-F2A75M-HD2 User Manual - Page 31

6. When the message appears, press + to clear the MBR or press other keys to ignore this option. 7. Press + to set the capacity of the RAID array or press other keys to set the array to its maximum capacity. 8. After the creation is complete, the screen will return to LD View Menu where you will see the newly-created array. 9. Press to return to Main Menu and press again if you want to exit the RAID BIOS utility. Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette Before installing Windows XP, connect a USB floppy disk drive to your computer first because you need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver from a floppy disk that contains the driver during the OS installation. To copy the RAID/AHCI driver for Windows XP, copy all files in the \BootDrv\Hxp folder in the motherboard driver disk to your floppy disk. To install Windows 8/7/Vista, you also need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver during the OS installation. To copy the RAID/AHCI driver for Windows 8, copy the whole Hw8_A85 folder under the BootDrv folder in the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive. Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System A. Installing Windows XP Restart your system to boot from the Windows XP setup disk and press as soon as you see the message "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver." Insert the floppy disk containing the SATA RAID/AHCI driver. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the driver that suits your operating system. After the driver installation, you can proceed with the Windows XP installation. B. Installing Windows 8/7/Vista (The following instructions use Windows 8 as the example operating system.) Boot from the Windows 8 setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When the screen requesting you to load the driver appears, select Browse. Then browse to the USB flash drive that contains the driver and select the location of the driver. The locations of the drivers are as follows: RAID driver for Windows 8 32-bit: Hw8_A85\RAID\x86 RAID driver for Windows 8 64-bit: Hw8_A85\RAID\x64 AHCI driver for Windows 8 32-bit: Hw8_A85\AHCI\W8 AHCI driver for Windows 8 64-bit: Hw8_A85\AHCI\W864A For Windows 7, browse to the Hw7_A85 folder. After loading the driver, continue the OS installation. 3-2 Drivers Installation •• Before installing the drivers, first install the operating system. (The following instructions use Windows 8 as the example operating system.) •• After installing the operating system, insert the motherboard driver disk into your optical drive. Click on the message "Tap to choose what happens with this disc" on the top-right corner of the screen and select "Run Run.exe." (Or go to My Computer, double-click the optical drive and execute the Run.exe program.) After inserting the driver disk, "Xpress Install" will automatically scan your system and then list all the drivers that are recommended to install. You can click the Install All button and "Xpress Install" will install all the recommended drivers. Or click Install Single Items to manually select the drivers you wish to install. - 31 -