xp reinstall hp pavilion laptop

[Luke alcatel]

After a HDD failure I am trying to reinstall XP/SP2 on an HP Pavilion dv5000
laptop. Installer recognized the new 120GB SATA HDD after F6 and loading of
82801GBM SATA AHCI drivers from USB floppy. Later, installer prompted me to
"Insert the disk labeled: Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver into drive A:,
Press ENTER when ready." I found this driver on a download site and
prepared a floppy however with floppy in place when I press Enter the
installer doesn't even do a seek on the floppy and the screen message does
not change. How can I get past this step?

Luke

 

[DL]

The drivers required are obtainable from the hp site, specific to your
model, and not from some download site, or winupdate

 

[Luke alcatel]

I tried the HP site first and the download named "Intel Matrix Storage
Manager" is a 17.67MB file that does not create an installation floppy.
However since posting my question I found that my original driver floppy
created from the "Intel SATA AHCI Controller Driver" download from the HP
site for Pavilion/dv5000 has a readme.txt which at the top identifies itself
as "Installation Readme for Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager". So it seems
that I am being prompted to use that same floppy for a 2nd time. However I
get the same result -- after Enter setup does not seek on the floppy and the
screen message does not change. The only option I am given is to abort
setup. BTW, I also determined that the files I got from the other download
site are identical to the ones on the HP site and my original floppy --
after all HP is only packaging files they got from Intel.

Luke

 

[Luke alcatel]

I found a workaround although it does seem that setup has a bug. I was able
to disable SATA via the BIOS. I assume this puts the HDD controller in a
mode in which it will work with a default driver. I was able to complete XP
installation in this mode. Presumably I will be able to install the proper
SATA driver and enable SATA in BIOS later.

Luke