Owner's Manual

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5-1-2 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System
With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows Vista onto your hard drive(s). The following
is an example of Windows Vista installation.
A. Installing Windows Vista
The procedure below assumes that only one RAID array exists in your system.
Step 1:
Restart your system to boot from the Windows Vista setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps.
When a screen similar to that below appears (RAID hard drive will not be detected at this stage), select Load
Driver (Figure 1).
Figure 1
Figure 2
Step 2:
Insertthe motherboard driverdisk (MethodA)or the USB ash drive that contains the driver (Method B),
then specify the location of the driver (Figure 2). Note: For users using a SATA optical drive, be sure to copy
thedriverlesfromthemotherboarddriverdisktoaUSBashdrivebeforeinstallingWindowsVista(goto
the BootDrv folder and save the whole iMSMfoldertotheUSBashdrive).ThenuseMethodBtoloadthe
driver.
Method A:
Insert the motherboard driver disk into your system and browse to the following directory:
\BootDrv\iMSM\32Bit
For Windows Vista 64-bit, browse to the 64Bit folder.
Method B:
InserttheUSBashdrivecontainingthedriverlesandbrowseto\iMSM\32Bit (for Windows Vista 32-bit) or
\iMSM\64Bit (for Windows Vista 64-bit).