Installing XP on Satellite A200

[Nuhaus]

Originally Posted by allan_huang

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

Have you tried using winimage on the floppy image you can download from Toshiba.ca? That's how I got the drivers for my install.

[allan_huang]

Originally Posted by Nuhaus

Have you tried using winimage on the floppy image you can download from Toshiba.ca? That's how I got the drivers for my install.

THANKS! +1
WinImage was what I need.

[le-foot]

Where on toshiba.ca?

[BiJibiRu]

For ALL if you wan't to install A-200 win winxp you must chose WINXP-LITE version. bcause this version support with all SATA drive.

i try to all notebook with SATA drive it' work.

sorry my english is bad.

http://www.BiJibiRu.com

[stretchicles]

I have just installed Windows XP Pro SP2 on a Toshiba A200.
I went to the Toshiba (Australia) site and D/L ALL the drivers etc (29 of the buggers!!) lol.
I want to make sure that if you are having problems, read the following - Out of the 4 SATA/RAID drivers that were offered up in the F6 function on install, that for my A200 I had to blind try all before I finally got XP to actually start after the install re-boot. (had a blue screen error)
Everything is hunky dory now. . . . MUST BE THE RIGHT DRIVER!
Support URL (Australia)
http://www.isd.toshiba.com.au/71/liv...&CATOID=-15058

[shortguy014]

I managed to get the drivers our of the EXEs by using a program called izarc. Google it. Once its installed get your exe, right click it and press select extract to ./EXE NAME All the drivers will be extracted there, including the INFs.

[Mocha_Latte]

I successfully found and selected the driver that was compatible with my Satillite A200. After I selected and formated my partition drive it started doing its thing, a little bit later it asked me to insert the "intel matrix storage manager driver" into drive A. Drive A is where my external floppy is, any solutions? I think im doing something wrong. I didn't know there was a intel matrix storage driver or w/e. I just thought I needed the driver for the SATA drive.

[Mansoor]

salutes to all those who posted on this thread. i was trying hard to install XP on my friend's toshiba a 200 from the past 2 days. i tried even low level format and almost reached to the conclusion that the hard disk is having some problem with boot sector. thanks for the information. i wonder why toshiba does not mention this issue on their web site?

[Mansoor]

Finally i installed xp in the Toshiba Satellite A 200. Even though i got the idea how to integrate the sata driver in to xp installation cd using nlite. it was too late in the night and i was run out of cd to burn the nlite iso. but i solved the problem in a weird way. i tried to boot the system with an old windows ME installer cd. Surprisingly the ME installation detected the hard drive and started to install on the SATA hard disk. After that I just upgraded it with XP. But the CD drive was not detected after instaliing ME so I copied XP installation files in to a USB flash disk and installed xp from the flash disk.