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20th Dec 2007, 11:20
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YO ALL
 I have a laptop  It has Vista Premium So I got Windows Media Center to replace Vista .When I boot from the CD it loads the files, then says it cannot detect my HDD  That's silly because I have a 120 GB sata Fujitsu MHW2120BH Hard Drive installed  .I did a'lot of looking around on google and found out that you need HDD drivers to install XP on a sata interface  . So I went to Fujitsu's web site but couldn't find any .Is there any alternative to this dilema? Or is there anywhere else I can find the HDD driver? TIA Elijah 
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20th Dec 2007, 11:43
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You get SATA drivers from your motherboard manufacture/model not hard drive.
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20th Dec 2007, 11:46
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Oh Really? I guess that makes sense
 How do I know what mobo I have? It's a laptop so do I have to take it apart and see ?Thanks Elijah
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20th Dec 2007, 11:55
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If it's a laptop then you get them from the laptop maker.
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20th Dec 2007, 12:38
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I feel I made a mistake getting this laptop. I bought it off newegg for $670. The specs: C2D 1.5 GHZ 2 GB DDR2 667 Ram 120 GB Hard Drive Vista Home Prem 1.3 MP Webcam 15.4 WGXA DVDRW/CDRW I bought in b/c it was infact a good deal for those specs. But it being a NO-Name brand should have been enough to turn me away from it  Since I bought it newegg has discontinued it. And I can't find it on the internet either .I'm not sure what to do right now 
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20th Dec 2007, 13:34
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Install Everest(from the downloads section).
It will hopefully give you the info you need,sometimes even provides links to drivers for your hardware.
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#7
20th Dec 2007, 13:57
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Thanks, I tried that but it said the mobo was unknown
I'm not sure what to do now. I'll try calling ZT systems 
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#8
20th Dec 2007, 15:20
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This should help: http://www.thecomputerforums.co.uk/f...blem-hdd-6072/
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#9
20th Dec 2007, 16:38
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Thanks that did help
Funny thing though, I almost bought a vostro 1520 but when I found this laptop I got it instead So will these drivers work http://www.softwarepatch.com/utilities/via-sata.html ? I need to get the drivers to put on a floppy, then it's should work. Thanks Elijah
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24th Dec 2007, 08:41
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Ok I got XP installed
I went into the bios and disabled AHCI Mode which does handicap the hard drive a little by making the computer think it's an ATA hard drive instead of a SATA hard drive. But now that XP is installed I might be able to download and install the SATA drivers and then enable AHCI Mode.BTW XP runs so much better than vista did  Thanks for all ye help  Elijah
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