Satellite A205-S4777 - XP does not recognize HDD

Hi!
I recently have buyed a new Toshiba A205-S4777 satellite with Windows Vista home premium installed
and i noticed too many errors in Windows Vista and the pc is very slow so i decided to downgrade to XP
I want to install directly Windows XP but the installer does not recognise the hard drive or more exactly the controllers!
I nLited the Sata drivers in the Windows Xp Sp2 i have bought in the microsoft.com site!
Everything worked fine.
The installer recognised the Hard Drive and the installer finallased fine!
But here' s the problem when windows loads and try to switch on it gaves a kind of blue screen unreadable one!
And restarts and if you let it it does all the day the same!
I am afraid i do not nLited the correct drivers.
Is there anybody that heve downgraded this model ?
Thanx

Hi
Possibly you used not right SATA driver ?:| Who knows
The point is that there are two different Intel Matrix Storage Manger versions which support different chipsets.
I dont know what chipset your notebook supports but you should check this and should check also the Intel Storage Manger description and should check what chipsets are supported.
Additionally you should take a look here into this Toshiba doc:
[How to integrate a SATA AHCI driver in a Windows XP Setup CD|http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/TSB85017Z0000R01.htm]
Bye

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