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English (4) Making a SATA Driver Disk To install operating system onto the RAID array successfully, you need to install the SATA controller driver during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard disk may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First of all, copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver CD-ROM 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 CD-ROM in your system. Boot from the startup disk. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to the CD-ROM drive (example: D:\>). At the D:\> prompt, type the following two commands. Press ENTER after each command (Figure 13): cd bootdrv menu Figure 13 Figure 14 Step 2: When the controller menu (Figure 14) appears, remove the startup disk and insert the blank formatted disk. Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu. For example, from the menu in Figure 14, press 1 to select VT8237S_Raid for Windows operating system. Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press 0 to exit when finished. (Note) For users without a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the GIGABYTE motherboard driver CD-ROM. From the CD-ROM drive folder, double click the MENU.exe file in the BootDrv folder (Figure 15). A command prompt window will open similar to that in Figure 14. Figure 15 - 63 - Appendix

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Appendix
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English
(4)
Making a SATA Driver Disk
To install operating system onto the RAID array successfully, you need to install the SATA controller
driver during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard disk may not be recognized during the
Windows setup process.
First of all, copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver
CD-ROM 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 CD-ROM in your system.
Boot from the
startup disk. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to the CD-ROM drive (example: D:\>).
At the D:\>
prompt, type the following two commands. Press ENTER after each command (Figure 13):
cd bootdrv
menu
Step 2: When the controller menu (Figure 14) appears, remove the startup disk and insert the blank
formatted disk.
Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu.
For example, from the menu in Figure 14, press
1
to select
VT8237S_Raid
for Windows operating
system.
Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk.
Press
0 to exit when finished.
Figure 13
Figure 14
(Note)
For users without a startup disk:
Use an alternative system and insert the GIGABYTE motherboard driver CD-ROM. From the
CD-ROM drive folder, double click the
MENU.exe
file in the
BootDrv
folder (Figure 15). A
command prompt window will open similar to that in Figure 14.
Figure 15