![]() button on the Driver tab will show the driver filename ( iaStor.sys for me). In my case, its an Intel(R) 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller. ![]() But of course, modern notebooks have no floppy drives!Īgain, I couldn't find the solution on the web, but fortunately, by examining the Recovery partition, I managed to figure this out.įirst, in the Device Manager, display the SATA Controller properties. Normally, when the Windows CD boots, it's possible to install the driver at the "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver." prompt, but this will load the drivers of a floppy drive. So imagine my horror when upon re-booting to test it, I was greet with a Blue Screen of Death and a STOP error! Testing with the Recovery Console directly off the CD also gave the same result.Ī little research found me the reason: SATA hard disks require a driver that is not included with XP! Normally, from the Windows XP/2000/2003 CD, just run X:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons to install (where X: is the CD drive, or alternatively, C: since most pre-installed notebooks include all the setup files in C:\i386) The Windows Recovery Console is, to me, an essential install. This entry was originally posted on - a hack the Windows XP Recovery Console to include the SATA driver, as it applied to a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion dv5201tx notebook.
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