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5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID Driver Diskette for Windows XP
(Required for RAID Mode)
To successfully install Windows XP operating system onto SATA hard drives that are configured to
RAID mode, you need to install the SATA controller driver during the OS installation. Without the driver,
the hard drive may not be recognized during the Windows XP setup process
(Note 1)
. First of all, copy the
driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. See the instructions
below about how to copy the driver in MS-DOS mode
(Note 2)
. Prepare a startup disk that has CD-ROM
support and one blank formatted floppy disk.
Step 1: Insert the prepared startup disk and motherboard driver disk in your system. Boot from the startup
disk. Once at the A:\> prompt, change to your optical drive (example: D:\>). At the D:\> prompt, type the
following two commands. Press <Enter> after each command (Figure 1):
cd bootdrv
menu
Step 2: When the controller menu (Figure 2) appears, remove the startup disk and insert the blank
formatted disk. Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu. For
example, from the menu in Figure 2, to install Windows XP 32-bit to your RAID hard drives, select 2)
NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 520LE Series RAID Driver(XP). The 3) NVIDIA GeForce 6100/
nForce 520LE Series RAID Driver(64-Bit) is for Windows XP 64-bit. Your system will then automati-
cally zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press <0> to exit when finished.
(Note 1) If you want to install Windows Vista, install all required motherboard drivers (including the
SATA controller driver) after Windows Vista is installed.
(Note 2) For users without a startup disk:
Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. From your optical drive
folder, double click the MENU.exe file in the BootDrv folder (Figure 3). A command prompt
window will open similar to that in Figure 2.
Figure 1 Figure 2
Figure 3