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Installing XP problem with Sata Drivers - Toshiba Satelite Pro L40
I am attempting to reinstall the Toshiba Satelite Pro Laptop with XP Home SP2 (it was shipped with Vista)
however I am having difficulty with sata controller driver.
I obtained the relevant sata driver for XP from the Toshiba website (The Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager)
put the drivers on a floppy disk and connected a usb floppy drive to the laptop.
I am familiar with the setup process to install addional disk controller drivers during xp setup i.e hold down F6 and specify the additional drivers.
All these steps appear to work fine as setup detects the Hard drive and allows a partition to be created and formats it. However after it copies the files the following message is displayed
"Insert Disk labelled: intel matrix storage manager driver
Into drive A. Press Enter to continue."
It will not go beyond this point.
My first thoughts were that either the floppy disk or drive were fauly, but I have eliminated both of these.
I've also checked with the intel website and the drivers appear to be correct.
The floppy disk I used contained the following files:
iaAhci.inf, iaAhci.cat,
iaStor.inf, iaStor.cat,
iaStor.sys, TxtSetup.oem.
readme.tx and license.txt
Your thoughts would br greatly appreciated.
however I am having difficulty with sata controller driver.
I obtained the relevant sata driver for XP from the Toshiba website (The Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager)
put the drivers on a floppy disk and connected a usb floppy drive to the laptop.
I am familiar with the setup process to install addional disk controller drivers during xp setup i.e hold down F6 and specify the additional drivers.
All these steps appear to work fine as setup detects the Hard drive and allows a partition to be created and formats it. However after it copies the files the following message is displayed
"Insert Disk labelled: intel matrix storage manager driver
Into drive A. Press Enter to continue."
It will not go beyond this point.
My first thoughts were that either the floppy disk or drive were fauly, but I have eliminated both of these.
I've also checked with the intel website and the drivers appear to be correct.
The floppy disk I used contained the following files:
iaAhci.inf, iaAhci.cat,
iaStor.inf, iaStor.cat,
iaStor.sys, TxtSetup.oem.
readme.tx and license.txt
Your thoughts would br greatly appreciated.
sognoct
I've resolved the same problem for a HP pavillon creating a custom XP cd using nLite.
try disabling sata from bios ... sometimes it works
your problem is simple : it does NOT see an USB floppy drive at that point, you need a normal foppy drive
If you don't have a normal floppy drive, try burning the files to a CD-Rom and see if it sees that drive as A at that point in the install.
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You absolutely can use your USB Floppy disk. The problem you're running into is that the Windows XP installer doesn't associate its floppy drivers with your USB floppy. You can add a couple lines to the txtsetup.oem file of the F6 floppy to tell Windows to use its USB floppy drivers with your hardware.
Here's a link with the details:
http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t82711.html
Here's a link with the details:
http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t82711.html
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