No hard disk

[Tmagic650]

What exactly is your current problem once again, if you don't mind?

 

[grizzler]

Ok ill sum it up.

Got a Windows Vista laptop but for uni i need Windows Xp. So thought fine ill run a dual boot. Went out and bought Xp home, partitioned the drive, and wacked the disc in. Came up to install xp all fine then it goes " sorry cannot find a hard drive" After looking about on the net i see it is becuase of a SATA drive i have. So i install again but press f6 at the start it asks for the drivers on the A: drive. I got the chipset drivers from the laptop site (see above link) put them on a usb pen drive and put it in. Read the drivers fine but then said cannot contiue because setup cannot find Txtsetup.oem. Thats it where i got too.

Any ideas?

 

[Tmagic650]

Ok please look at this page once again...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318812

The "Txtsetup.oem"... is in the download package

 

[Cinders]

*edited*

OK alrighty the txtsetup file should be here. You will have to extract the files from the exe with a program like WinRAR.

*EDIT* I Changed WinZip to WinRAR because WinZip will not do the job. /*EDIT*

*EDIT* WinRAR will not do the job either. To get a copy of the file on a computer that does not use the drivers you'll need to double click iata76_enu.exe and let the install process begin. Then bring up the task manager with Ctrl+Alt+Delete and on the process tab you need to kill both iata76_enu.exe and Setup.exe. If you don't kill the processes with the task manager but cancel them instead with the install program then txtsetup.oem will be erased.

Browse to C:\WINDOWS\Temp\IIF\Winall\Driver and you'll find the file in there. /*EDIT*

 

[grizzler]

Ok ill be getting thoes drivers as soon as the site come back up! grr

 

[grizzler]

ok all the driver i think i have a the txtsetup.oem but now it just wont take them off the usb memory stick. So i think its time to do a raid slipstream. Can anyone explain it too me, thanks

 

[grizzler]

DONE! Well xp installing now. That raid slipstream wasnt that hard! Thanks for all your help! Was useful

 

[Tmagic650]

Great! grizzler...
Glad you finally got this done... Happy computing!

 

[Cinders]

At this point my "from memory" instructions are a bit fuzzy, so I'll just say that I use a combination of this guys info and nlite. With a little study, I'm sure you can slipstream a Windows XP disk without any problems.

 

[Samstoned]

man, my syntax is getting bad
need more ,,,,,,,,,,

 

[Tmagic650]

Hey Samstoned,
do you post using a PDA or Blackberry device? All your posts look a little strange or truncated

 

[Samstoned]

more like in hurry ,bad grammar
lot to chew on at home front
need to go back to school need a car
and now stuck with more home repairs
I guess could be worse

 

[Tmagic650]

Ok cool...

I have a friend that always communicates and writes email using a Blackberry phone. His posts and email look wierd too