[smartf]

Hello friends.

I would like to uninstall vista . but when I try to install XP to it shows NO drives at all to install to. I even tried to run repair on the drive but it still finds no drives.
i found this model only in toshipa site

which one for my pc ?

and in Driver type i choose Storage Manager !!! is this true
my hard is HTS542516K9SA00

i download


so now wot could i do ?

[IcemanND]

I don't know the specs on your machine but I would suspect that you have a SATA drive which under most circumstances is not seen during installation by a standard XP install cd. You either need to add the sata to you install cd, or F6 and a floppy (probably not), or you can check your system bios and see if there is an option to change the SATA controller from AHCI mode to compatibility mode. If compatibility mode exists it usually allows the XP install to detect the controller and drive and is faked into think it is a standard ATA controller.

[smartf]

yes, the hard is sata ...
and the problem exactly as u said but i can't solve it .....

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You either need to add the sata to you install cd

show me how ? and where is that file which i'll add it?