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[marine1]

Hey guys I have a HP laptop trying to install a new Sata Drive, Seagate Momentus, 160g. I plugged it in to the existing slot and removed the original drive as I now want to install XP.
Problem is when loading the OS, it cannot find my hard drive, I think I need to install 3rd party SCSI or something like that when it says F6 at the beginning.
Where would I get these drivers and how would I load them as there is no floppy drive?

Thanks

 

[The_Unbeliever]

See if you can enable native mode for your hard drive.

Search this forum, there's a couple of posts regarding this issue.

 

[marine1]

ok thanks

 

[marine1]

Need sata drivers for intel however they have to be put onto a floppy - dont have a floppy drive, any ideas?

 

[sn3rd]

Apparently (haven't tried, but someone said it worked) you do the F6 thing... Then when it asks you, you press F5 (I THINK it's F5... Could be one of the others), then it gives you an option to mount a flash.

Alternatively, you could use a slipstreamed XP SP2 disc and native mode. That was what I had to do with my HP 530 notebook.

 

[sn3rd]

Need sata drivers for intel however they have to be put onto a floppy - dont have a floppy drive, any ideas?

Shouldn't need... I didn't

 

[marine1]

I fixed it - I found the Intel driver for the chipset and integrated it into a new installation package of XP SP3. Thanks anyway

 

[marine1]

Thanks guys.