Windows XP help please

[ioneabee]

majorly off topic - but i can see that there is a lot of all sorts of experience on here....so here goes

 

got an old portege M400 Tablet laptop with Win XP tablet edition installed, just gone T up !

 

I have no cd's for it, but have downloaded an ISO on 2 disks, the first is win xp, the second i'm told is the tablet edition extras

I can get drivers off the Toshiba site.

 

booted from the disk, it ran through the usual loading stuff, but then I come up my problem....the hard drive must be sata, because xp can't recognise it ie no hard drive installed message.

 

There don't appear to be any sata drivers on the tosh website and i have no idea which ones it would want to search ??

also, once i get the drivers, how do i instal them at start uo....no floppy drive !!

 

thanks in advance if anyone can help

 

Andy

[DoogyRev]

Download Win7 Tablet edition and stick that on it instead. I used to get SATA issues with XP on my PC, when I reinstalled with Win7 it never asked me about SATA drivers.

 

If you can find which SATA controller it is you may be able to get them and load from a USB stick

[ioneabee]

without doing an "unauthorised" download, I've only got the licence key for win xp and I'd rather not shell out on a new OS for an older computer

[DoogyRev]

I have just searched the web and we have exactly the same lappy in the office, so I will have a look for some original driver discs for you next week. May not be in the office till thursday though

[ioneabee]

that would be brilliant

 

thanks

 

my 8yr old daughter can wait that long

[DoogyRev]

that would be brilliant

 

thanks

 

my 8yr old daughter can wait that long

 

No worries

 

I will drop you a PM when I have them

[Chap]

Easy peasy.

 

Allegedly http://askiris.toshiba.com/ToshibaSupportSite/search.do;jsessionid=F75FF702CBBEE2140C9D64AD59FC6281?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1334715xml&sliceId=&dialogID=10542044&stateId=1%200%2010540080 has the set of drivers you need.

 

Then you need to grab yourself a copy of nLite.

 

1) Install nLite

2) Extract drivers into a folder

3) Point nLite at original XP ISO file

4) Point run the integrate drivers option - point at any file in the extracted drivers, it will add them all

5) Build new ISO

 

Might want to look to see if there are any drivers on the Tosh ISO too that you might need, like for the touchscreen interface etc. Add them all to the above.

 

Job jobbed

 

Job jobbed.

[ioneabee]

Easy peasy.

 

Allegedly http://askiris.toshiba.com/ToshibaSupportSite/search.do;jsessionid=F75FF702CBBEE2140C9D64AD59FC6281?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1334715xml&sliceId=&dialogID=10542044&stateId=1%200%2010540080 has the set of drivers you need.

 

Then you need to grab yourself a copy of nLite.

 

1) Install nLite

2) Extract drivers into a folder

3) Point nLite at original XP ISO file

4) Point run the integrate drivers option - point at any file in the extracted drivers, it will add them all

5) Build new ISO

 

Might want to look to see if there are any drivers on the Tosh ISO too that you might need, like for the touchscreen interface etc. Add them all to the above.

 

Job jobbed

 

Job jobbed.

 

 

linky no worky

 

re-did it and it worked - strange

 

however, thats a raid driver not a sata driver ?

[DoogyRev]

Works for me ....... are you trying to use the tosh?

[ioneabee]

Works for me ....... are you trying to use the tosh?

 

[Chap]

Its allegedly the right one, SATA is generally used in RAID. I nicked the link from here anyway: http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/toshiba/1867-fresh-windows-install-portege-m400.html there might be more info buried in that thread.

[ioneabee]

that would be brilliant

 

thanks

 

my 8yr old daughter can wait that long

 

No worries

 

I will drop you a PM when I have them

 

any chance you can .iso them and upload to a share facility ? ie dropbox or something like that ?

thanks