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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 congured 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 oppy disk. For installing Windows Vista, you also can copy the SATA con-

troller driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB ash drive. See the instructions below about how to

copy the driver in MS-DOS and Windows mode.

In MS-DOS mode:

Prepare a startup disk that has CD-ROM support and a blank formatted oppy disk.

Steps:

1: Boot from the startup disk.

2: Remove the startup disk and insert the prepared oppy disk and the motherboard driver disk (here we as-

sume that the drive letter for your optical drive is D:\).

3: At the A:\> prompt, type the following command. Press <Enter> after the command:

• For the Intel P55, type (Figure 1):

(Note)

A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\imsm\32bit\*.*

• For the GIGABYTE SATA2, type (Figure 2):

(Note)

A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\gsata\32bit\*.*

Figure 1 Figure 2

Figure 4

Figure 3

In Windows mode:

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 (Figure 3). A Command

Prompt window will open similar to that in Figure 4.

3: Insert the blank formatted disk. Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the

menu. For example, from the menu in Figure 4,

• For the Intel P55, 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 the GIGABYTE SATA2, 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 copy the driver les to the oppy disk. Press any key to exit when nished.

(Note) Change the directory from \32bit to \64bit if you wish to copy the Windows 64-bit driver.

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