Driver for Sata hard disk

Hi,

I am looking for drivers for hitachi HTS542525K9SA00 which is 250GB sata hard disk.

I am looking to install windows xp on Vista compatable notebook (Sony Vaio VGN-FZ340E).

Can anyone provide me the drivers.

Regards

 

you don´t need drivers for a sata harddisk. the drivers you need are the sata drivers for your motherboards chipset.

you will get these drivers either at sony, or if it´s intel based you can download the latest drivers from their homepage.

 

are you saying that you can't install Xp on there because Xp doesn't recognize your Sata drive? In that case, you'll have to slip stream sata drivers on there

 

you machine uses the Intel® 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller Driver

just checked, and the driver is included in the driver package i obtained from hp.
when you slipstream the sata drivers to your xp cd, you see various drivers , after you have choosen the folder with the files. make sure to select only the Intel® 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller Driver.

Here are the files, just uploaded them :

http://rapidshare.com/files/106576386/Satadriver.rar.html

 

Yeah you are right. I want to install XP and that Vista doesn't recognize it.

I'll download the drivers from the rapidshare link you have provided and check out whether it works or not.

Thanks a lot for providing information.

 

You can download the driver for your hard drive controller from Intel website http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Det...&OSFullName=Windows* XP Professional&lang=eng

It will create the driver you need on a floppy. If you have a USB floppy drive, you can use that to load the driver during XP installation (Press F6 when prompted by XP). Make sure you enable external boot drive in the BIOS.

 

Can you please tell me if other drivers for my notebook are also available or not (compatible with XP)., .e.g. audio, video, ethernet, etc. I have checked the Sony website for my drivers for XP, but they aren't available.

 

well, u have to search around to see is there any drivers for yours hardware that xp used.

u can look for a similar model that ar using xp and with same hardware on your computer. then u can find the drivers.

now a days, most newest drives ar for vista no xp. if u really want to use xp, u need to use a older version of drivers

 

You really ought to ask this question in the Sony Forum here. You should not need a driver for a Vista Install, it will recognize the drive. XP needs slipstreamed drivers since you have no floppy drive to load them from. There are downgrade drivers for some Sony models available including some Sony FZ models. But you will NOT be able to get power management or function key support. The apps (not drivers) for those are NOT available. Lets take the rest of this discussion back to the Sony forum.

Gary

 

Today, i tried to install Windows XP. I downloaded the SATA drivers and integrated to XP CD through nlite. I got an error message when i tried to install Windows XP on my notebook, iastor.sys file is corrupted.

 

I had the same problem when trying to install XP on my M50. Since you need the same driver I needed. You can try to do what I did.

Load a regular install of XP with SP2, with IDE/SATA controller mode set to compatible.

Download the Intel Matrix Storage Manger from the Lenovo website
Link below
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs...s/7tim04ww.exe

Hope this helps.

 

Thanks for the reply.
Can you provide me the exact link. Your link contains /pc/pccbbs...s which is not accessible.

Thanks

 

I need another information. If i install the intel matrix storage manager, do i need to integrate the SATA driver into XP or my notebook will recognize the SATA drive.

 

u need to make information available to XP in regard to access the drive. This is in the form of the sata driver. So either u slip-stream (integrate) the driver into XP installation package/disk or u have the driver available when XP prompts for it

cheers ...

 

I know that in order to recognize Sata Driver, i have to integrate the driver into XP. But, I got the problem yesterday when i did that: ... iastor.sys file is corrupted....Then, someone in this thread said to Download the Intel Matrix Storage Manger. Now, my question is that, if i install storage manager, do i have to still integrate SATA drivers into XP, or it will automatically recognize the SATA driver. Above all, will my iastor.sys file error be fixed.

Thanks

 

. sounded that like the download got corrupted. Redownload from another source and try again
. how do u propose running the storage manager when ur XP is not yet running?
. the only time that one runs the storage manager AFTER a running XP is to make available SATA AHCI option to XP. Other than that XP is quite happy running SATA-IDE mode (set from Bios in some models)

cheers ...

 

You don't have to integrate the SATA driver into your XP installation. You can install the driver after installing XP.

Did you click on the link to the Lenovo website. That one works still.
LENOVO WEBSITE
SATA DRIVER

Hope this helps.

 

Really? How do you propose to get around the error message when the XP installer complains that it can't find the hard drive? That very message is why folks have had to resort to slipstreaming the driver into the XP install.

Gary

 

Exactly. This is what i am here for. I am getting error message after integrating the Sata driver into XP. Someone said to download driver from another source. Can anyone provide me other source for my notebook.

 

Two places. Sony's esupport web stie or Intel, since the HD controller is an Intel device.

Gary

 

Yeah don't know sony's but intel's driver packs comes in installer or 32/64 bit floppy version. You'll need the floppy version, its an archived IMG file, winiso or isobuster can open and extract it.
I successfully integrated the driver in windows installation, had to disable my antivirus/antispy software though (Comodo AntiVirus & Comodo anti-malware), because nlite either crash or make bad integration(windows installer crash on loading the drivers)

 

Well, you were suppose to go to your BIOS, switch the SATA/IDE controller from Enhanced to Compatible, F10 to save, then boot from the XP Installation CD. Once you've installed XP w/Sp2. Load the regular Intel Chipset from the drivers CD. Then update to the SATA driver via your Device Manager using the iastor.inf file from the Lenovo Link. Then you would reboot, go to your BIOS, switch the controller back to Enhanced and F10 again. It worked for me, twice, I have to say.

I'm not against slipstreaming. It just didn't work for me. The driver that I had downloaded from the INTEL website wasn't good, I kept erroring out. So instead of trying to install a modded XP install for the 5th time, I decided to do something else.

 

I don't think that it really needs to be either place. Most manufacturers that offer SATA HDD in their Penryn/Santa Rosa based laptop uses the same AHCI SATA driver. My brother's T60 laptop uses the same driver, as well as the M1530 and DV9700t that I was looking at.

 

Yeah Intel's fault..sure..

It worked for me too. Hope you can change ide / ahci mode in your bios.

 

I don't have the option to switch SATA/IDE controller from Enhanced to Compatable in BIOS. Is it going to display when you install intel matrix storage manager?

 

No. I'm afraid nlite is your only option. Want to e-mail you intel's driver ?

 

my email is [email protected]

Thanks a lot buddy

 

Done. You should check your mail.

 

That is fine IF your bios supports the change. None of the current Sony FZ machines have a BIOS that supports this. Nor do some of the other Sony models.

Gary

 

Some of them offer an optimized driver, specific to a particular model. I can't honestly tell you, though, if there is any real throughput increase with the "optimized" drivers or not.

Gary

 

Hey..i haven't got mail yet. Can you re-send?

 

It should be, no errors here, make sure you check your spam folder, maybe it's there. Confirm that the e-mail you gave me is spelled correctly I just copy paste it.
Or download it here http://www.mediafire.com/?fznmdjzmzjh

 

THANKS A LOT.