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Conguring SATA Hard Drive(s)
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B. Installing Windows XP (32-bit)
BeforeinstallingWindowsXP,connectaUSBoppydiskdrivetoyourcomputerrstbecauseyouneedtoinstall
theSATARAID/AHCIdriverfromaoppydiskthatcontainsthedriverduringtheOSinstallation.Withoutthe
driver,theharddrive(s)maynotberecognizedduringtheWindowssetupprocess.First,copythedriverfrom
themotherboarddriverdisktoaoppydisk.Refertothemethodsbelow.
MethodA:
• FortheAMDA88X,copyalllesinthe\BootDrv\Hxpfoldertoyouroppydisk.
MethodB:
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. A Command Prompt
window will open similar to that in Figure 2.
3: 3:Inserttheblankformatteddisk(ifyou'reusingaUSBoppydiskdrive,makesureitisdesignatedasdrive
A).Selectthecontrollerdriverbypressingthecorrespondingletterfromthemenuandpress<Enter>.For
example, from the menu in Figure 2, for the AMD A88X, select 6) hseries AHCI/RAID for XP.
Yoursystemwillthenautomaticallycopythedriverlestotheoppydisk.Pressanykeytoexitwhennished.