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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.
• For the Marvell 88SE9172, 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:
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: nsert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 Z68, select 8) Intel Rapid Storage driver for 32bit system for Windows XP 32-bit op-
erating system.
• For the Marvell 88SE9172, 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.
Figure 2