Potential DV5000T problem

Ok this is the deal. Just got the dv5000t today and made a dvd of the partition so i have drivers etc. i did a quick write zeros to the hd. everything smooth so far. i booted from XP pro cd and when i went to install it said no HD is found. Now i know the hd is blank and has no format etc but still the XP should know the HD is there so it (the XP cd) can format and load me XP pro. Everthing seemed to work fine the 10 min. i was running it before writing zeros. Is there something obvious i am missing?

 

The dv5000T uses a SATA hard drive, you"ll need to find the SATA drivers as Win XP does not natively support these HDD's. Check this thread for more infor and some solutions...
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=45119&highlight=dv1000t+hard+drive

 

well i thought that might be it but i figured since i have loaded many other sata 1 and sata 2 hd in desktops i wouldn't have a problem. But after looking at the thread i guess for some reason in this application i have to.

 

Well that's very inconvenient... that's exactly what I was going to do once I get my dv5000z-- reformat. I hope a solution comes about soon!

 

You probably wont have that problem with the dv5000z, as I think it uses PATA hard drives.

 

I'll have to check into that for sure. One can hope!

 

Ok this was my plan. If you shut off SATA enable in bios you can load everything you need. I made a data recovery disk of the partition. After windows was loaded i was going to use that to install all the needed drivers. But it turns out the recovery dvd is all data files. So nothing windows can read. The dvd is 6.5 or around there gigs so all files should be there. Any ideas?

 

One more thing. I know i can boot from the recovery DVD. So my question is how do i install only the drivers off that dvd? Is this possible? Or does it just reinstall everything including XP home?

 

just curious what are you using winxp pro/home sp2 install?

 

I Installed XP pro w/sp2. But as stated above now i have no way of installing drivers even though i have made recovery dvd.

 

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?dlc=en&lc=en&product=1832441&lang=en&cc=us&os=228

this is all new, they just updated all of this. NONE of this stuff was on their website 2-3 days ago. get on AIM mhxr or yahoo mhxr06 and msg me we can bs about this and try to figure it out

 

What do you mean "data files"? What kind of files since all files contain data ? You should have exe-s and inf-s, so that windows can read them.

 

No the files are .dat .inp .inf etc. there are no exe, zip etc. At first i thought the dvd i made was bad but if you boot from it like HP says you are supposed to do it works perfect. In addition the dvd size is exact same mb or i should say gigabyte as the partition took up on the hd before i wrote zeros.

 

You can do fine with INF files under Windows - these are the actual driver files.
It's good to know the dvd works as it is supposed to.

 

hey vassi do you know how to use nlite to extract the drivers that i need and put the all on one xp cd or dvd? I tried doing this and imported all the INF from the recovery cd. however once i make the cd and try boot from it the comptuer goes in caldera and then to A:/ and i am stuck. Any ideas?? Also what exactly is an INF file. I mean when i look at other driver files they usually have a variety of extensions? thx.

 

All I know about nlite is that it gives you the option to customize WinXP's installation. I've tried it only to the point where it saves all the necessary files in one directory (that is the installtion files) and they did not look different from the files on my WinXP CD. I haven't run it from there on because I didn't need it. I can't tell if the real installation goes thru nlite or thru Setup.exe as usual.

INF files contain the necessary info about the driver you need so that Windows can recognize a given device and use it. If you right click on any INF file, you will see an option to INSTALL it. Yet, if you are not sure whether this file is sufficient and/or appropriate, it is better to go to Device Manager, click on the device you want to install and in the Driver Update wizard give the INF file/files. Windows will pick the best match and will report back if the driver is compatible or not. Yet, have in mind that the INF file contains links to other important setup files (usually in the same folder) so be sure to give the Wizard the location of the INF as it was in the Recovery Partition. In other words, don't take out INF files out of their folders because they are something like paths for Windows to find and install all that is necessary.
In older versions of Windows, one had to insert the Windows CD every time a driver was updated because the INF files told the OS what to get. Windows XP no longer does this because it has an enormous driver database and equally enormous installtion on the HDD.

Using these files, however, is a manual operation, which I'm sure, HP did not intend you to perform. The recovery dvd is safer and easier.

 

Go to Hp wedsite and download 5000t drivers and you may be able to use 5000z drivers. You could call Hp and see if you can get a driver cd. The 5000z came with two disc operating disc and a driver disc. I wish they did that with the 5000t instead of the recovery system. I think all the amd notebooks come with operating disc's