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B. Installing Windows XP

BeforeinstallingWindowsXP,connectaUSBoppydiskdrivetoyourcomputerbecauseyouneedtoinstall

the SATA RAID/AHCI driver during the OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive(s) may not be recog-

nized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 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 2.

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 2,

• For the Intel ICH10R, select 8) Intel Rapid Storage driver for 32bit system for Windows XP 32-bit op-

erating 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.

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Gigabyte GA-X58A-OC User Manual

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