Installing XP on Satellite A200

caterpillar · 10-23-2007, 02:51 PM

For a start I would like to say hello

to all of you!
I've just bought a Satellite A200 and because of my work I have to use XP instead of Vista. I've found all drivers besides the raid ones! I've made a bootable floppy disk using the raid drivers found in my recovery partition but with no luck. I've attached my hardware report using everest ultimate, in case you need some additional info.
I would appreaciate if you'd help me, i'm at a dead-end!
Thanx in advance

Nuhaus · 11-04-2007, 05:32 AM

Do you mean the SATA drivers that you need for the XP install? I can't find those either. I've tried downloading them from the Toshiba site but the disk image is an exe file that does nothing when I click on it (is it borked? how the heck is one supposed to use it?), and the SATA drivers themselves are a 20 meg setup file that won't just give me the files so I can point XP at them when I install. I'm completely lost here. How is one supposed to install XP on this lappy without the SATA driver on a floppy image? XP keeps saying I have no hard drive installed.... lame.

Help please.

Padmé · 11-04-2007, 01:24 PM

You need to slipstream the driver onto your XP disk. There are several threads about this on this site if you search.

jesse6749 · 11-04-2007, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by PurpleBlondie

You need to slipstream the driver onto your XP disk. There are several threads about this on this site if you search.

Tha's 100% correct, the easiest way I found from someone on this forum was to download and use Nlite ver. 1.3.5, it has a simple wizard that walks you through every step of doing the slip streamed CD or DVD process. Here is the link to download nlite: http://www.nliteos.com/index.html

domanw · 12-29-2007, 02:23 PM

hi,

package of all XP drivers for TOSHIBA A200-1AE below:

Code:

http://rapidshare.com/files/79532656/Drivers_Toshiba_A200-1AE.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/79539061/Drivers_Toshiba_A200-1AE.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/79544737/Drivers_Toshiba_A200-1AE.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/79550194/Drivers_Toshiba_A200-1AE.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/79555414/Drivers_Toshiba_A200-1AE.part5.rar

regards

Nuhaus · 01-06-2008, 12:07 AM

Ok, tried the Nlite thing and it didn't work. For some reason it would install on a vmware virtual drive but when I burned the disk and tried to install it on my hard drive I got another message saying that the hard drive was not detected.
The worst (and most ridiculous) part is trying to figure out where the driver is in the package that you get from Toshiba. Can someone please point me at the sata driver so I can at least get xp to recognize the hard drive? I can't believe how needlessly difficult and time wasting this is.

Nuhaus · 01-06-2008, 08:04 AM

Finally got it to install using Nlite. here's the steps I took for anyone else with a Toshiba A200-TH7 (bought in Canada). To get the sata driver out of "Intel Matrix Storage Manager-Floppy image.exe" I used Winimage which did the trick fine and put the driver into a folder. Nlite detected somewhere around 10 different drivers when I pointed it to this folder, which was rather confusing, but after burning the cd with the sata driver integrated into XP SP2, XP detected the damn HD and installed.

Padmé · 01-06-2008, 11:20 AM

Good job, Nuhaus.

BNDAZ · 01-09-2008, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Nuhaus

Finally got it to install using Nlite. here's the steps I took for anyone else with a Toshiba A200-TH7 (bought in Canada). To get the sata driver out of "Intel Matrix Storage Manager-Floppy image.exe" I used Winimage which did the trick fine and put the driver into a folder. Nlite detected somewhere around 10 different drivers when I pointed it to this folder, which was rather confusing, but after burning the cd with the sata driver integrated into XP SP2, XP detected the damn HD and installed.

Is there an extracted Intel Matrix Storage Manager available somewhere and will it work with an a205-s4777?

allan_huang · 01-09-2008, 05:32 PM

Ya, can someone post the SATA drivers somewhere, I extracted the Intel Matrix Storage Manager and gives me this .EXE, and if you extract it even more, it gives me a .IMA file, I dunno what the heck I have to do with this.
I found some other SATA drivers with like 5 files and I put it on the floppy, and it kind of works, I loads on onto the computer but it isn't the right drivers.
I have a USB floppy and I just need the driver.

Thanks in advance,
Allan