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Figure 2
B. Installing Windows XP
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theIntelZ77,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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64Bit 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 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 2,
• For the Intel Z77, select 8) Intel Rapid Storage driver for 32bit system for Windows XP 32-bit operating
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.