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Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System, A. Installing Windows 7

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5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 7/XP. A. Installing Windows 7 For the Intel Z77: As Windows 7 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. For the Marvell 88SE9172: Step 1: Copy the Marvell folder under BootDrv in the driver disk. Step 2: Boot from the Windows 7 setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When the screen requesting you to load the driver appears, select Browse. Step 3: Insert the motherboard driver disk and then browse to the location of the driver. The locations of the drivers are as follows: Windows 32-bit: \storport\i386 Windows 64-bit: \storport\amd64 Step 4: When a screen as shown in Figure 1 appears, select Marvell 91xx SATA 6G RAID Controller and click Next to load the driver and continue the OS installation Figure 1 - 95 - Appendix

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5-1-3
Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System
With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 7/XP.
Figure 1
A. Installing Windows 7
For the Intel Z77:
As Windows 7 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.
For the Marvell 88SE9172:
Step 1:
Copy the
Marvell
folder under
BootDrv
in the driver disk.
Step 2:
Boot from the Windows 7 setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When the screen requesting
you to load the driver appears, select
Browse
.
Step 3:
Insert the motherboard driver disk and then browse to the location of the driver. The locations of the drivers
are as follows:
Windows 32-bit: \storport\i386
Windows 64-bit: \storport\amd64
Step 4:
When a screen as shown in Figure 1 appears, select
Marvell 91xx SATA 6G RAID Controller
and click
Next
to load the driver and continue the OS installation