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5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID Driver Diskette

To successfully install operating system onto RAID drive(s), you need to install the SATA controller driver dur-

ing 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 oppy disk.

For installing Windows Vista, you also can copy the SATA controller driver from the motherboard driver disk to

a USB ash 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 oppy disk.

Steps:

1: Boot from the startup disk.

2: Remove the startup disk and insert the prepared oppy 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. Refer to Table 1 for

the SATA driver directories for different Windows operating systems and change the directory in the com-

mand according to the operating system to be installed. For example, to copy the RAID driver for Windows

XP 32-bit operating system, type:

A:\>copy d:\bootdrv\uda\winxp\sataraid\*.*

Figure 1

Figure 3

Figure 2

In Windows mode:

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 (Figure 2). A Command

Prompt window will open similar to that in Figure 3.

3: Insert the blank formatted disk. Depending on the operating system to be installed, select the controller driver

by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu and press <Enter>. For example, from the menu in Fig-

ure 3, select 2) NVIDIA RAID driver (XP) for the RAID driver for Windows XP 32-bit operating system. Your

system will then automatically copy the driver les to the oppy disk. Press any key to exit when nished.

Table 1

Operating System Directory

Windows XP 32-bit Bootdrv\UDA\WinXP\sataraid

Windows XP 64-bit Bootdrv\UDA\Win64\sataraid

Windows Vista 32-bit Bootdrv\UDA\WinVista\sataraid

Windows Vista 64-bit Bootdrv\UDA\WinVista64\sataraid

Windows 7 32-bit Bootdrv\UDA\Win7\sataraid

Windows 7 64-bit Bootdrv\UDA\Win764\sataraid