Hello all,

I have been given a HP lappy with a dead HDD.

Got hold of a working NTFS active formatted HDD but when installing XP it said do HDD detectied. Not a problem thought I cos it's a SATA drive i'll download the driver from HP, job done ... but no.

When I press F6 to install third party raid software the OS only looks for a floppy drive (not one on board) not the USB drive which I have the drivers on.

Now I do have a SATA/USB caddy attached to the PC. Can I just load the drivers on to the HDD? Or What should I be doing?

HELP PLEASE!

TY

 

I believe XP is limited to loading drivers from a floppy, unless you use a customised version of the windows CD...

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Windows dosent support SATA from a fresh install.

If you want to install from SATA you need additional drivers in first.

I run IDE & SATA, so they machine boots from IDE, and then finds the SATA

drive as an additional drive.

At first it wouldnt find the drive, but thats because i had the bios SATA

controller off, and it wasnt formatted


mart

 

Look in the bios for native sata mode and change it. If its on turn it off or vice versa. This usually lets XP detect the drive then just switch it back on when you have installed it

 

That sir was feckin spot on

TY

 

No problem had me scratching my head the first time I came across it