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shaydar

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March 16th, 2009 22:00

Installing XP on SATA

My hard drive is hitachi HTS543225L9A300, when installing XP it says no harddrive is detected on your system, I know there is the option to install a 3rd party drive durring installation, but it wants the disk to be inserted into drive A, which does not exist on my laptop. What do i do?

RobinBredin

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March 17th, 2009 03:00

My hard drive is hitachi HTS543225L9A300, when installing XP it says no harddrive is detected on your system, I know there is the option to install a 3rd party drive durring installation, but it wants the disk to be inserted into drive A, which does not exist on my laptop. What do i do?

 

Hi shaydar,  Windows XP does not support SATA hard drives so you need to load the SATA driver at the F6 prompt. Found this for you,

 

Q: How do I install Windows XP or Windows 2000 to a Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive?
A: Windows XP and Windows 2000 do not natively include drivers for SATA controllers (add-in or on-board), so you must install them during the installation of the operating system. The system, motherboard, or controller manufacturer usually supplies these drivers, either on a driver CD or downloadable from their web site.

To install the SATA controller drivers you first need to copy the appropriate drivers onto a diskette (controller drivers can be loaded from diskette only).

Early in the installation process, you have an opportunity to load third-party controller drivers by pressing ‘F6’. You will have six seconds to press ‘F6’ before the installation process will continue:

  • Press ‘F6’ to install the SATA controller drivers.
  • After pressing ‘F6’, you will come to a screen asking you to press ‘S’ to load additional controller drivers or to press ‘ENTER’ to continue with the installation. Be sure you press ‘S’ to load your SATA controller drivers. After pressing ‘S’, you will be prompted to insert a floppy disk with the updated drivers.
    Note: the installation process specifically looks at the A: (floppy) drive for the updated drivers. This is a limitation imposed by the installation routine. You cannot load the drivers using any other media.
  • After inserting the appropriate driver diskette, choose which driver you wish to load (if the disk has more than one driver). Make a selection using the up or down arrows and press ‘ENTER’ to install the driver.
  • Once you have loaded the appropriate controller drivers, you may continue with the installation.

shaydar

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March 17th, 2009 12:00

Thanks I get that much but, laptops dont have a disket drive! What do I do??

Davet50

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March 17th, 2009 13:00

Boot into your bios and look for a sata operation listing. make sure that the SATA  mode is set  ATA and and not AHCI.

If you do not have a floppy drive you will need to slipstream the SATA drivers into the install disk This LINK will provide some quidance and will work for XP or Vista

eolianul

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August 2nd, 2009 21:00

i want the driver for hard drive hitachi HTS543225L9A300.  pls help me.

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