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Inspiron 1520 XP OS load on SSD drive
HDD died in my Inspiron 1520 - so I purchased a 128GB SSD sata drive
BIOS sees it - but windows XP SP2 reinstall CD does not recognize HDD
Do I have to F6 and load SATA drivers for XPSP2 ?? or is it something with the SSD (hope not)
thanks in advance
Davet50
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December 20th, 2008 12:00
If not using a Dell disk then the SATA drivers will need to be loaded at the F6 command.
download THIS DRIVER. Run it to extract the files. Since you do not probably have a floppy you will need to slipstream them into the disk.
After you get the OS installed you need to follow the Instructins HERE on the correct order on reloading drivers.
On other thing is to boot into the bios. Check the SATA setting make sure it is set to Autodetect/ATA and not AHCI.
DELL-Larry R
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December 25th, 2008 14:00
The full list of drivers for the Inspiron 1520 is:
Make sure to install the Notebook System Software first.
If you are using the Dell OS reinstallation, as Dave says, you shouldn't need to load a SATA driver at the F6 prompt during Windows Setup.