I am downgrading a Toshiba EQUIUM P200-1ED from Vista HP to XP Pro. I have encountered a problem… I formatted the drives and then put in the XP disk, went to install and then it said, there was no Hard Drive, when there clearly is, as I can get to it through the Vista Drive Options disk.
The drive is 120GB S.M.A.R.T. did this come out after XP, so I would need the SMART MoBo drivers, or am I doing something wrong. If i do need the drivers, any idea which ones they are, I found this driver page over at Toshiba but don’t know which driver it is… http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=UK&mode=allMachines&action=search&teddProduct=755&selShortMod=668
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Jonathan A // Aug 7, 2008
Just a bit of friendly advice, XP is going out of date, off the shelves, and is no longer going to be worked on by microsoft. I would advise you to simply keep vista, but that is just my two cents.
2 Jerry J // Aug 7, 2008
make sure the HDD has been formatted and partioned
3 daliminator2000 // Aug 7, 2008
I’m guessing that your hard drive probably uses an SATA connection, which is not recognized by XP’s installation files by default. In order to get XP to recognize your hard drive, you will need to load the correct driver during installation via floppy disk or by including the driver in an installation disc (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Install-Windows-XP-On-SATA-Without-a-Floppy-F6-47807.shtml or http://paparadit.blogspot.com/2007/06/installing-sata-hard-drive-with-windows.html). You can also check your BIOS (hit F2 or Delete when your computer starts) to check for an AHCI/SATA setting - if it’s there, change it and see if that helps.
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