D9T Please help me out?

Ok, I have seen a few forums with similar, and the same problem that I am hving, but I have not seen any fixes? Alot of ppl are saying to embed ATA drivers into the install cd, but I cant even find drivers for such? I am a computer technician for a school system, so I am pretty savy,lol My problem is this. I cannot get the hard drive to be recognized during Win XP Pro install, from the original install cd. The BIOS has an option of Raid, or ATA. I have tried both numerous times, numerous ways and everytime I have recieved no hard drive found? I have removed the drives and installed them in an external housing and they are recognized by another pc via usb, so I know the drives are good. I have fixed many pc problems in my career, but this is truly whipping me,lol Any help, from anyone will be greatly appreciated. If I have not been specific enough, please let me know. Thank you to all that help......

 

welcome to nbr,

This is a simple problem.
Your d9T should have came with a USB floppy drive.
You need to install the Windows SATA driver on a Bootable MS-dos floppy for windows to detect the presence of a SATA harddrive.
It is a pain, but it works. Just download the sata drivers here:
http://www.eurocom.ca/support/drivers/zip/d900t/sata_d900.zip

Here are the instructions:
http://www.eurocom.ca/support/drivers/D900T_RAID_ATA_instructions.txt

Than from their you need to plug the bootable floppy drive into the system, put the floppy in, and when XP starts to install press F6 and that will let you choose to load a file from the floppy drive.

You also need to set the system to boot to floppy in the BIOS.
I have the AMD version of your laptop, so I have experienced these problems before.

K-TRON

 

K-TRON,
You are a genius!!!! Thank you so much. I have been in the computer field for almost 9 years, and I have never had a machine that I had to load the ATA drivers for. I have loaded RAID drivers, but never ATA. Thank you so very much, and I just hope I can repay the favor one day, and thanks for the warm welcome. Thanks again!

TG

 

no problem,
this situation drove me crazy when I first bought my system, and I could not install the operating system.
After figuring it out, I made the bootable floppy, and than I labeled the floppy with a yellow sticky thing and I put the floppy in with the XP installation disc, so that I always have my floppy drivers.

Vista has these sata drivers integrated into the operating system, so if you ever went to Vista, you would not need to use a floppy disc at all.

K-TRON

 

Ha, that is funny. I have already installed the drivers and have XP installing as we speak. I have labeled the floppy with a silver Sharpie,lol and it is already in the L.T.'s notebook! Thanks again, you have truly been a lifesaver tonight, because I was fixing to stroke out!!!lol

 

Thats good to hear.

I am glad I have helped you out

K-TRON