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Conguring SATA Hard Drive(s)

Figure 2

B. Installing Windows XP (32-bit)

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

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A78,copyalllesinthe\BootDrv\Hxp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: 3:Insert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 A78, select 6) hseries AHCI/RAID 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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