Portege S100 - Reinstall WinXP using F6 and RAID drivers

I posting this in the hope that it helps somebody.
Well my hard disk died, so got a replacement one. I did not have the original dvd so innocently I thought, just down load the drivers from the website.
Well did all that and the raid was still not seen! Changed raid settins in the bios which you get to by pressing escape, then set to default settings, restart and go back into bios goto page 3 - which is then visible. Ensure the disk is set to1raid0 - download the manual, but you have to accept any changes by entering 1234 when it asks you for a string from the manual. Anyway did all that - still no drive visible - so whats going on.
Well apparently there are 2 sets of drivers kr10n and kr10i - what the site givesyou is the kr10n drivers. Which may work for the newer ones but not mine! My laptop needs the kr10i Which I cant find on the tosiba website. BUT http://download.cnet.com/raid-drv-20070719134547-zip/3000-18492_4-174094.html or you can google for raid-drv-20070719134547
So the steps for me were use nlite to add the kr10i drivers to a patched WinXP SP3 cd and boot using that. It worked seamlessley.
After that it all went great! Well I didnt have much hair to begin with, but even less after the process finished.
Good luck

Hi
Thanks for this posting mate;
Additionally Ive found this nice Toshiba article about RAID installation on G20 and S100 units
+S-ATA and Toshiba RAID Driver: "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer" Error Message During Manual Installations+
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/TSB56012H0001R01.htm
Check it out!

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