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Conguring SATA Hard Drive(s)
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Figure 3
B. Installing Windows XP
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SB950,copyalllesinthe\BootDrv\Hxpfoldertoyouroppydisk.
• For the Marvell
®
88SE9172RAIDmode,copyalllesinthe\BootDrv\Marvell\RAID\Floppy32 folder
toyouroppydisk.(ToinstallWindows64-Bit,copythelesinthe64Bitfolder.)
 ForAHCImode,dependingonwhetheryouwanttoinstallthe32-or64-bitversion,copythelesin
the AHCI\Floppy32 or AHCI\Floppy64 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(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 3,
• For the AMD SB950 Chipset, select 6) hseries AHCI/RAID for XP
• For the Marvell
®
88SE9172, select 5) 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.