Gigabyte G1.Sniper - 5-6 Installing Windows XP

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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 Win-
dows 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 controller 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.
B. Installing Windows XP
To install Windows XP, you need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI 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IntelICH10R,copyalllesinthe\BootDrv\iRST\32Bitfoldertoyouroppydisk.ToinstallWin-
dows64-Bit,copythelesinthe64Bit folder.
• FortheJMicronJMB362,copyalllesinthe\BootDrv\GSATA\32Bitfoldertoyouroppydisk.Toinstall
Windows64-Bit,copythelesinthe64Bit folder.
• For the Marvell 88SE9182, copyalllesinthe\BootDrv\Marvell\RAIDfoldertoyouroppydisk.
For AHCI mode, depending on whether you want to install the 32- or 64-bit version, copythelesinthe
AHCI\Win32 or AHCI\win64 folder.
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 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,
• For the Intel ICH10R, select 8) Intel Rapid Storage driver for 32bit system for Windows XP 32-bit op-
erating system.
• FortheJMicronJMB362,select3) GIGABYTE GSATA driver for 32bit system for Windows XP 32-bit
operating system.
• For the Marvell 88SE9182, select 7) Marvell RAID driver. (For AHCI drive(s), select Marvell AHCI
driver.)
Yoursystemwillthenautomaticallycopythedriverlestotheoppydisk.Pressanykeytoexitwhennished.
Figure 3