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5-1-2 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 congured 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 (Figure 1):
A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\sb750\x86\*.*
(Note)
Figure 1
Figure 3
Figure 2
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 2). A Command
Prompt window will open similar to that in Figure 3.
3: Insert the blank formatted disk. Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the
menu and press <Enter>. For example, from the menu in Figure 3, to install Windows XP to the RAID/
AHCI hard drives, select 3) SB700/710/750 SATA Driver for XP.
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 \x86 to \x64 if you wish to copy the Windows 64-bit driver.
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