Gigabyte GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 - Installing the SATA RAID;AHCI Driver and Operating System

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A. Installing Windows 7/Vista
As Windows 7 and Vista already include Intel SATA RAID/AHCI driver, you do not need to install separate
RAID/AHCI driver during the Windows installation process. After the operating system is installed, we recom-
mend that you install all required drivers from the motherboard driver disk using "Xpress Install" to ensure
system performance and compatibility.
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.
B. Installing Windows XP
Before installing Windows XP, connect a USB oppy disk drive to your computer rst because you need to in-
stall 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 Intel Z68, copy all les in the \BootDrv\iRST\32Bit folder to your oppy disk. To install Windows
64-Bit, copy the les in the 64Bit 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 1.
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 1,
• For the Intel Z68, select 8) Intel Rapid Storage driver for 32bit system for Windows XP 32-bit op-
erating system.
Your system will then automatically copy the driver les to the oppy disk. Press any key to exit when nished.
Figure 1