Gigabyte GA-F2A75-D3H - 5-1-2 Installing SATA RAID;AHCI Drivers and OS; Installing Windows 7;Vista;XP with SATA Drivers

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5-1-2 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System
WiththecorrectBIOSsettings,youarereadytoinstallWindows7/Vista/XP.
Figure 1
A. Installing Windows 7/Vista
(ThefollowinginstructionsuseWindows7astheexampleoperatingsystem.)
Step 2:
BootfromtheWindows7/VistasetupdiskandperformstandardOSinstallationsteps.Whenthescreenrequest-
ing you to load the driver appears, select Browse.
Step 3:
ThenbrowsetotheUSBashdriveandselectthelocationofthedriver.Thelocationsofthedriversareasfollows:
RAIDdriverforWindows732-bit:Hw7\RAID\x86
RAIDdriverforWindows764-bit:Hw7\RAID\x64
AHCIdriverforWindows732-bit:Hw7\AHCI\W7
AHCIdriverforWindows764-bit:Hw7\AHCI\W764A
Step 4:
WhenascreenasshowninFigure1appears,selectAMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller and click Next
to load the driver and continue the OS installation.
Step 1:
You need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver during the OS installation. Use an alternative system to copy
theSATARAID/AHCIdriverfromthemotherboarddriverdisktoaUSBashdrive.CopytheHw7 folder under
BootDrv in the driver disk.