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    HELP! HP compaq nc 4400 SATA driver

    Discussion in 'HP' started by ddhhiikkaa, Mar 17, 2008.

  1. ddhhiikkaa

    ddhhiikkaa Newbie

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    oops, sorry im new at this! :S

    i screwed up my com and it refused to startup, so i put in the windows installation CD and tried to repair windows. but the prompt said that they cant detect my HDD and they asked me to install a SATA RAID driver for my HDD.

    my laptop is a HP compac nc4400, and i have a floppy drive, i just need to find the driver. until now still no luck. any kind soul there can help me?

    thanks thanks alot :)
     
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    sipp11 Notebook Consultant

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    Hmm, you may get into the BIOS Setup menu first (press F1 or F2 or F10 or del on the POST screen), then find SATA mode and change it to 'compatible mode'. Anyway, this might not be the exactly word since it's just depending on manufacturers.

    this is the example; http://www.hentges.net/misc/howtos/pics/pc1_small.JPG

    I think this should help Windows CD find the HDD.
     
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    THANKS!

    but is there any other way than through BIOS? because, its actually a school laptop, and i screwed it up, and unfortunately, they put a password on the BIOS, so i cant get to the bios xP haha..

    can help? thanks!
     
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    Wooo! thanks alot for the help! i managed to get windows cd to detect the HDD by installing the SATA driver first using floppy :)

    THANKS ALOT FOR THE HELP. :)

    but unfortunately, the school is stupid enough to put an administrator password on the C: drive, i cant do a recovery console :(

    but i guess, this one has no solution already :(

    so, THANKS for the help aniway! :)
     
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