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Appendix

5-1-3  Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette

    (Required for AHCI and RAID Mode)

To successfully install operating system onto SATA hard drive(s) that is/are configured to RAID/AHCI 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 setup process. First of all, copy the driver for the SATA controller from 

the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. For installing Windows Vista, you also can copy the SATA con-

troller driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive. See the instructions below about how to 

copy the driver in MS-DOS and Windows mode. 

In MS-DOS mode: 
Prepare a startup disk that has CD-ROM support and a blank formatted floppy disk.

Steps:

1:  Boot from the startup disk. 

2:  Remove the startup disk and insert the prepared floppy disk and the motherboard driver disk (here we as-

sume  that the drive letter for your optical drive is D:\).

3:  At the A:\> prompt, type the following command. Press <Enter> after the command: 

  • For the AMD SB750, type (Figure 1):

 (Note 1)

A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\SB7xx\x86\*.*

  • For the JMicron JMB362, type (Figure 2):

 (Note 2)

A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\gsata\32bit\*.*

(Note 2)  Change the directory from \32bit to \64bit for copying the Windows 64-bit driver.

Operating System 

Directory

Windows XP 32-bit 

Bootdrv\SB7xx\x86 

Windows XP 64-bit 

Bootdrv\SB7xx\x64

Windows Vista 32-bit 

Bootdrv\SB7xxV\LH

Windows Vista 64-bit 

Bootdrv\SB7xxV\LH64A

Windows 7 32-bit (AHCI mode)  

Bootdrv\SB7xxW7\AHCI\x86

Windows 7 32-bit (RAID mode)  

Bootdrv\SB7xxW7\RAID\x86

Windows 7 64-bit (AHCI mode)  

Bootdrv\SB7xxW7\AHCI\x64

Windows 7 64-bit (RAID mode)  

Bootdrv\SB7xxW7\RAID\x64

Figure 1

Figure 2

(Note 1)  Type the driver directory based on the operating system to be installed. Refer to the following table  
 

for the SATA driver directories for different Windows operating systems.