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About to build my first system 
Motherboard is GA-EP45-UD3LR. I'll be setting it up for a SATA RAID 1 array. I haven't done this before but the manual for this board has detailed instructions and I don't think I'll have any problems. What I do need is help on creating a startup floppy disk. New system will have a floppy/card reader installed.
Instructions require a startup floppy disk in order to boot system and then copy the SATA RAID/AHCI Drivers from the motherboard CD to another blank floppy. This floppy will then be used to install those drivers during install of the OS (in this case Windows XP). Here is the relevant information from the manual:
5-1-2 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
first have to copy the SATA controller driver from the motherboard driver disk to your USB flash drive
and then extract it (see instructions on the next page). See the instructions below about how to copy the
driver in MS-DOS mode(Note). Prepare a startup disk that has CD-ROM support and a 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, select 7) Intel Matrix Storage Manager 32 bit for Windows
32-bit operating system or 8) Intel Matrix Storage Manager 64 bit for Windows 64-bit.
Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press <0> to exit
when finished.
My current system does not have a floppy drive but I can access a PC that does. Current OS is Windows XP SP2. Question I have is where can I find the files necessary to create a bootable floppy? I can put them on a USB thumb drive and then access the other PC to transfer them to a floppy disk.
I used to create floppy boot disks all the time when I used Windows 98 but since this system does not have a floppy drive I obviously can't format a floppy or make it bootable.
Hope this is not too confusing! Would appreciate any help.
Motherboard is GA-EP45-UD3LR. I'll be setting it up for a SATA RAID 1 array. I haven't done this before but the manual for this board has detailed instructions and I don't think I'll have any problems. What I do need is help on creating a startup floppy disk. New system will have a floppy/card reader installed.
Instructions require a startup floppy disk in order to boot system and then copy the SATA RAID/AHCI Drivers from the motherboard CD to another blank floppy. This floppy will then be used to install those drivers during install of the OS (in this case Windows XP). Here is the relevant information from the manual:
5-1-2 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
first have to copy the SATA controller driver from the motherboard driver disk to your USB flash drive
and then extract it (see instructions on the next page). See the instructions below about how to copy the
driver in MS-DOS mode(Note). Prepare a startup disk that has CD-ROM support and a 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, select 7) Intel Matrix Storage Manager 32 bit for Windows
32-bit operating system or 8) Intel Matrix Storage Manager 64 bit for Windows 64-bit.
Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file to the floppy disk. Press <0> to exit
when finished.
My current system does not have a floppy drive but I can access a PC that does. Current OS is Windows XP SP2. Question I have is where can I find the files necessary to create a bootable floppy? I can put them on a USB thumb drive and then access the other PC to transfer them to a floppy disk.
I used to create floppy boot disks all the time when I used Windows 98 but since this system does not have a floppy drive I obviously can't format a floppy or make it bootable.
Hope this is not too confusing! Would appreciate any help.
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