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    Sony vgn-ar550e hard drive not found with boot cd

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by PhilthyMcNasty, Nov 27, 2007.

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    One of our users here purchased a vgn-ar550e with Vista pre-installed on it. The problem is our company does not support Vista in a MS environment. What we normally do is re-image PC's with a BartPE cd that has a XP image on it. The problem I'm running into is when I boot with Bart, it does not see the hard drive in the laptop however it does see the external hard drive via USB that has our ghost image on it. I tried looking in the BIOS to see if maybe there was a RAID option turned off but did not see any raid controllers installed. I talked to a Sony tech and he was next to useless in this matter but did mention there is no raid on the system. Is there some driver that I need to load to get Bart/Ghost software to see the hard drive?

    Please help.
     
    PhilthyMcNasty, Nov 27, 2007
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    bumping this
     
    PhilthyMcNasty, Dec 3, 2007
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    coolguy Notebook Prophet

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    You need to have the SATA driver for XP to recognize the SATA hard drive.
     
    coolguy, Dec 3, 2007
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