Portege M400 - Windows XP cannot find the hard disk drive

Hi,
Ive got a Portege M400 to which im wanting to start a fresh, I never had the tablet XP CD so im trying to install using a XP Pro disc but everytime I get no hard drive can be detected and I tried a another Home edition disc also.
Ive searched for SCSI/ SATA drivers but can only find RAID drivers to which are no good for me,
Hopefully someone can help me out
Thanks

Hi wacksonjackson,
Why these RAID drivers are not good for you? Windows XP requires RAID drivers if your notebook has RAID controller and there is no other option to install XP from a normal Windows XP disk. So download the RAID drivers on official Toshiba website. Either you create a new installation disk with RAID drivers using freeware tool nLite or you copy the drivers on an external USB FDD and load them during XP setup.
Also check similar threads here in forum. You will find hundreds of similar threads about SATA and RAID drivers.
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