Thanks John.
I have installed this onto my Toshiba M45 laptop with SATA drive. Do you
Did you use the exact same driver that I quote below (1.3.8.0)? If not,
do you have a URL for the file you used?
press F6 when prompted to install RAID/SCSI drivers?
Yes.
What happens then?
It grinds through the floppy and eventually says there's a Toshiba Raid
driver for W2000 and one for XP, and asks which one do I want. So I
select the XP one, go ahead, then (I seem to remember) it asks if I want
to load any more drivers (no), I proceed and then eventually it gets
back to the dreaded "setup did not find any hard disks".
I used default for all of the settings. Also, the Toshiba reinstallation CD
has everything on it that you'll need - and it has an automated routine to ID
the SATA drive (plus an option not to install the added Toshiba utilities).
That machine was sold WITHOUT a reinstallation disk (I also explicitly
asked the salesman but no, they didn't have it in store even as an
optional). Talking to a former colleague (I used to work at Toshiba) I
discovered that, in those cases, usually the HD has a small second
partition with some recovery files. This was the case for mine, though
there were no instructions (neither in the manual nor on any online
support documents that I could find) on how to activate the restore
procedure.
It may in theory be possible to boot from that hidden partition and do
some kind of restore, but that would at best clear all my settings and
data from the original disk and at worst make it unbootable; and that
disk, though now unstable, is currently the only usable windows boot
disk I have for that machine.
For this reason and others I instead want to install XP on a different
(blank) hard disk, not the one that is currently in the machine, while
leaving the current one unharmed so I always have a fallback. I have
already bought ANOTHER copy of windows xp for this purpose.
More clues welcome.
