Gigabyte GA-M68M-S2P - Making SATA RAID Driver Diskette

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5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID Driver Diskette
To successfully install operating system onto RAID drive(s), 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 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.
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. Refer to Table 1 for
the SATA driver directories for different Windows operating systems and change the directory in the com-
mand according to the operating system to be installed. For example, to copy the RAID driver for Windows
XP 32-bit operating system, type:
A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\uda\winxp\sataraid\*.*
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. Depending on the operating system to be installed, select the controller driver
by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu and press <Enter>. For example, from the menu in Fig-
ure 3, select 2) NVIDIA RAID driver (XP) for the RAID driver for Windows XP 32-bit operating system. Your
systemwillthenautomaticallycopythedriverlestotheoppydisk.Pressanykeytoexitwhennished.
Operating System Directory
Windows XP 32-bit Bootdrv\UDA\WinXP\sataraid
Windows XP 64-bit Bootdrv\UDA\Win64\sataraid
Windows Vista 32-bit Bootdrv\UDA\WinVista\sataraid
Windows Vista 64-bit Bootdrv\UDA\WinVista64\sataraid
Windows 7 32-bit Bootdrv\UDA\Win7\sataraid
Windows 7 64-bit Bootdrv\UDA\Win764\sataraid
Table 1