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B. Installing Windows XP

Before installing Windows XP, connect a USB oppy disk drive to your computer rst because you need to in-

stall the SATA RAID/AHCI driver from a oppy disk that contains the 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 oppy disk. Refer to the methods below.

Method A:

For the AMD SB950, copy all les in the \BootDrv\SBxxx folder to your oppy disk.

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 le in the BootDrv folder. A Command Prompt

window will open similar to that in Figure 2.

3: nsert the blank formatted disk (if you're using a USB oppy disk drive, make sure it is designated as drive

A). Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu and press <Enter>. For

example, from the menu in Figure 2,

• For the AMD SB950, select 3) ATi AHCI/RAID Driver for XP.

Your system will then automatically copy the driver les to the oppy disk. Press any key to exit when nished.

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