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I'm trying to re-install a Hp-Compaq nx7300 notebook. A Virus damaged both
the system (Windows XP Pro gave me a nice blue screen) and the recovery
partition (when I try to start the recovery, it goes for a while but then it
stops).
So I've tried to start from Windows XP but I need the SATA controller
drivers because Windows doesen't find the Hard Drive. Where can I find them?
In the HP website I didn't find nothing.
Thank you
Christian
In my experience, Windows XP Pro or Home with Service Pack 2 has the SATA
drivers integrated onto the CD, or, really, slipstreamed... Ben Myers
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:19:58 GMT, "Skywalker Senior"
<skywalkersenior@nospam.com> wrote:
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>I'm trying to re-install a Hp-Compaq nx7300 notebook. A Virus damaged both
>the system (Windows XP Pro gave me a nice blue screen) and the recovery
>partition (when I try to start the recovery, it goes for a while but then it
>stops).
>So I've tried to start from Windows XP but I need the SATA controller
>drivers because Windows doesen't find the Hard Drive. Where can I find them?
>In the HP website I didn't find nothing.
>
>Thank you
>
>Christian
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"Ben Myers" <ben_myers_spam_me_not@charter.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> In my experience, Windows XP Pro or Home with Service Pack 2 has the SATA
> drivers integrated onto the CD, or, really, slipstreamed... Ben Myers
>[/color]
I'm trying to install from an original Win XP Pro SP2 CD, but it doesen't
find the HD... :-(
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Christian
"Skywalker Senior" <skywalker_senior@indovinaildominio.com> ha scritto nel
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> "Ben Myers" <ben_myers_spam_me_not@charter.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:rm80u3l8vrn4pivrdtkj2i4r62sr3d85vq@4ax.com...[color=green]
>> In my experience, Windows XP Pro or Home with Service Pack 2 has the SATA
>> drivers integrated onto the CD, or, really, slipstreamed... Ben Myers
>>[/color]
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> I'm trying to install from an original Win XP Pro SP2 CD, but it doesen't
> find the HD... :-(
>[/color]
I've solved the problem. I just disabled the RAID function (Native SATA =
Disabled) from BIOS.
In any case I downloaded Matrix SATA Drivers from Intel site and, during
installation, I've extracted the necessary files to put on a floppy
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Christian
On Mar 18, 12:19*pm, "Skywalker Senior" <skywalkersen...@nospam.com>
wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm trying to re-install a Hp-Compaq nx7300 notebook. A Virus damaged both
> the system (Windows XP Pro gave me a nice blue screen) and the recovery
> partition (when I try to start the recovery, it goes for a while but then it
> stops).
> So I've tried to start from Windows XP but I need the SATA controller
> drivers because Windows doesen't find the Hard Drive. Where can I find them?
> In the HP website I didn't find nothing.
>
> Thank you
>
> Christian[/color]
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if u find out its solution then please mail me.
thanks
You can find the SATA driver you need on the HP web site. Search for the model
NX7300, then downloads, then download Intel SATA AHCI Controller Driver. To
use, you need an external USB diskette drive and you need to follow the
instructions on the HP web site to prepare the download for use. Once you start
up the Windows XP install, you need to hit the F6 key to load the supplementary
SATA driver.
Leave it to Microsoft to do brain-dead stupid trailing-edge stuff like allow
loading of drivers required by installation ONLY from a floppy drive, a feature
that was first available around 1995 with Windows NT 4.0 !
You other choice would be to use the latest OEM version of XP, Home or Pro as
appropriate, with Service Pack 2C. After serious pressure from its main name
brand customers, Microsoft slip-streamed the SATA stuff into the Windows install
CD... Ben Myers
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:43:34 -0700 (PDT), abhinav <dk.karol@gmail.com> wrote:
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>On Mar 18, 12:19*pm, "Skywalker Senior" <skywalkersen...@nospam.com>
>wrote:[color=green]
>> I'm trying to re-install a Hp-Compaq nx7300 notebook. A Virus damaged both
>> the system (Windows XP Pro gave me a nice blue screen) and the recovery
>> partition (when I try to start the recovery, it goes for a while but then it
>> stops).
>> So I've tried to start from Windows XP but I need the SATA controller
>> drivers because Windows doesen't find the Hard Drive. Where can I find them?
>> In the HP website I didn't find nothing.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Christian[/color]
>
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>
>if u find out its solution then please mail me.
>
>thanks[/color]