[Elijah]

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

[Hybr!d]

You get SATA drivers from your motherboard manufacture/model not hard drive.

[Elijah]

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

[Hybr!d]

If it's a laptop then you get them from the laptop maker.

[Elijah]

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

[Krlll]

Install Everest(from the downloads section).
It will hopefully give you the info you need,sometimes even provides links to drivers for your hardware.

[Elijah]

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

[Hybr!d]

This should help: http://www.thecomputerforums.co.uk/f...blem-hdd-6072/

[Elijah]

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

[Elijah]

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