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Figure 3
B. Installing Windows XP (For the Marvell 88SE9172)
(Note)
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 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 Floppy64 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:
Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk.1:
From your optical drive folder, double click the 2: Menu.exe le in the BootDrv folder. A Command Prompt
window will open similar to that in Figure 3.
Insert the blank formatted disk (if you're using a USB oppy disk drive, make sure it is designated as drive 3:
A). Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu and press <Enter>. For
example, from the menu in Figure 3, 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.
(Note) The X79 SATA RAID/AHCI driver does not support Windows XP 32-bit. To install Windows XP 64-bit,
search for the installation instructions on the Support & Downloads\FAQ page on our website.