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number13   05-04-2009 at 10:55:17 AM

I have a Toshiba Satellite A205-S5000 with Vista home on it and it works OK, but I bought a larger HDD and I thought that I would put Windows XP PRO on it, I went from a Hitachi 160GB 2.5" SATA drive to a 250GB drive, same Manufacturer, the only difference in the drives is the original was a SATA 1.50 and the new drive is a 3.0, BIOS see's the drive and the XP disk does al the usual stuff, then it asks if you want to Install windows on it, so I click OK and then it says the windows cannot detect any HDD and aborts the installation, I know that the 2 SATA's are compatible and the only draw back is that the 3.0 may operate in the 1.5 mode in the worse case scenario, but windows doesn't see the drive at all, any help or idea's would be appreciated

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n3f0ur   05-04-2009 at 02:31:46 PM
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Try to manually partition the new harddisk in XP setup. If that fails, get this on a disk on a working pc:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Boot it up on the lappy, go to Partition Tools, use one of them to partition the disk to 1 partition in NTFS format. The rest is default. Install XP.

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number13   05-04-2009 at 05:22:55 PM
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thanks I'll give it a try

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number13   05-05-2009 at 05:50:27 PM
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First, I wasn't aware that the Ultimate Boot CD had a partition tool in it, at least mine doesn't, I used Hirens and that won't do anything, the problem is that the windows installation disk has native SATA drivers on it, but the Toshiba laptop has to have the drivers for the Intel SATA and you have to download them from the Toshiba website, then you can use a USB floppy drive to install the drivers at the beginning of the installation, it says to install SATA raid or SCSI drivers press F6 now, I don’t have a USB floppy so I slipstreamed the drivers in a installation disk and that worked great, BTW if you watch the files being copied at the beginning of the installation process one is a Toshiba Libretta ( or libretto) floppy driver being copied, now I know why, as for the rest of the necessary files to make the rest of the hardware work, a little searching on the internet gave me what I needed


Message edited by number13 on 05-05-2009 at 06:01:27 PM
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