Hard drive driver problems

[Sway]

Hi there,
This is my first post so i am not realy sure if i am in the right section but any way i just bought a new Toshiba a200 ft1 Laptop, it came with vista and the first thing in my mind was to downgrade^^
Now like every body else i thought it would be easy but it wasnt after a few days of ( power googling ) lol, i got the windows xp cd to boot up i had to add the harddrive driver to windows xp.
By the way i have windows xp home edition sp2 and i found a source where all the drivers for my laptop are avalible for xp or vista...

So after booting xp it will try to load the files and at a certain spot it will say it couldnt find
iaStor.sys now i have all ready found the files by unpacking the driver for my hard drive and by adding it at several folders on the cd it still wont work i am tired of using so much emty cd \ dvd's.

i would be very happy for some support thanks you for taking time to read my problem.

 

[raybay]

Go back to vista. Not all the drivers are there for the XP version.

 

[larrrardintx]

Googling IAStor.sys shows that it is connected to the Intel Matrix Storage Manager. Since this is a RAID driver did you push F6 for the option to install a 3rd party RAID driver during the installation of XP Home.

And Intel makes a version for Windows XP, see the link below:
Intel Matrix Storage Manager so you may wish to try this as well


Larry

 

[nasaaa]

drivers

Go back to vista. Not all the drivers are there for the XP version or download from web site