GA-EX58-UD3R - Hardware
GA-EX58-UD3R - Hardware
GA-EX58-UD3R - Hardware
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5-1-3 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette<br />
(Required for AHCI and RAID Mode)<br />
To successfully install operating system onto SATA hard drive(s) that is/are configured to RAID/AHCI<br />
mode, you need to install the SATA controller driver during the OS installation. Without the driver, the<br />
hard drive may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First of all, copy the driver for<br />
the SATA controller from the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. For installing Windows Vista, you<br />
also can copy the SATA controller driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive. See the<br />
instructions below about how to copy the driver in MS-DOS mode (Note) . Prepare a startup disk that has<br />
CD-ROM support and a blank formatted floppy disk.<br />
Step 1: Insert the prepared startup disk and motherboard driver disk in your system. Boot from the<br />
startup disk. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to your optical drive (example: D:\>). At the D:\> prompt,<br />
type the following two commands. Press after each command (Figure 1):<br />
cd bootdrv<br />
menu<br />
Step 2: When the controller menu (Figure 2) appears, remove the startup disk and insert the blank<br />
formatted disk. Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu. For<br />
example, from the menu in Figure 2:<br />
• For Intel ICH10R SATA controllers, select 1) Intel Matrix Storage driver for 32bit system for Windows<br />
32-bit operating system or 2) Intel Matrix Storage driver for 64bit system for Windows 64-bit.<br />
• For GI<strong>GA</strong>BYTE SATA2 SATA controller, select 3) GI<strong>GA</strong>BYTE GSATA driver for 32bit system for<br />
Windows 32-bit operating system or 4) GI<strong>GA</strong>BYTE GSATA driver for 64bit system 64-bit.<br />
Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press to exit<br />
when finished.<br />
Figure 1 Figure 2<br />
(Note)<br />
For users without a startup disk:<br />
Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. From your optical drive<br />
folder, double click the Menu.exe file in the BootDrv folder (Figure 3). A command prompt<br />
window will open similar to that in Figure 2.<br />
Figure 3<br />
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