Storage management Sata Drivers

Hi,
I installed xp on lenovo g550 by switching to IDE mode, after that i installed all sort of drivers iincluding sata drivers for sata channels, but when I switch back to AHCI mode & boot, Os will not load, Only blue screen comes & laptop restarts & this will continue till I again switch back to IDE mode.
Can Any one help how to configure sata drivers & boot into ACHI mode?
Thanks

Download AHCI drivers from Intel here.
Than, manualy istall it from device manager, under IDE/ATA ATAPI controllers. Search something like "Intel ICH9 port Serial ATA Storage Controller". In one of next screens select "Dont search. I will choose the driver to install" and select path to unpacked driver. Choose the correct AHCI driver for your controller. After this, restart your operating system, enter bios, select AHCI mode for SATA controller and boot into OS.

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NB200-10p - Can't install Inter Storage Manager - SATA driver issue

Hello :)
I've installed XP Pro SP3 on a clean HDD on my NB200-10p.
To make CD installation happen, i had to modify the "SATA controller mode" from "AHCI" to "Compatibility"
since XP does not have sata drivers embeded.
OS instalation went fine, and I have installed all the Toshiba drivers one by one, but Inter Storage Menager,
which contains SATA drivers, does not want to install !!
The installation setup starts, but ends with an error saying "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software" !???
Any ideas ?
Tnx
Cheers!

Hi
Im asking myself why you need to install the SATA drivers if you already installed the Win XP on this NB200?
> To make CD installation happen, i had to modify the "SATA controller mode" from "AHCI" to "Compatibility"
If you have changed the SATA mode to compatibility then the SATA drivers are not necessary because the HDD controller does not run in SATA mode!

P55-CD53, how to install SATA AHCI drivers and Matrix Storage Manager?

Please excuse my noobness as this is for my first PC build and much of it is Greek to me, but could someone please inform/educate me as to what the following drivers (link) are for and which need to be installed after a fresh installation of Windows 7 Pro x64? Do I need to install all of them because some of these appear to be redundant, just from different manufacturers, or am I mistaken? I have a single 500GB HDD but will probably add more down the road.
JMicron JMB36x IDE Drivers (including floppy driver)
Description   XP/Vista/Win7 Ver: 17.49.04.WHQL
Update Date   2009-07-27
Your System OS   XP/Vista/Win7 32/64bit
(3989KB)
Intel P55 AHCI / RAID Drivers
Description   Ver: 8.9.0.1023
Update Date   2009-07-24
Your System OS   XP/Vista/Win7 32/64bit
(23048KB)
Intel P55 SATA RAID Driver (For floppy driver)
Description   Intel P55 SATA RAID driver
1. Extract the file and Copy all files to the floppy.
2. Press F6 to install driver through the floppy when booting and loading RAID function.
Update Date   2009-07-24
Your System OS   XP/Vista/Win7 32/64bit
(443KB)
JMicron IDE/SATA RAID Drivers (with AP)
Description   XP/Vista Driver Version: 1.17.43.05
For floppy install:
Please copy all the directories and files in the "floppy" folder to the root directory of a floppy disk to create a pre-install disk for Win2K/WinXP/Win2003/WinXP 64bits/Win2003 64bits.
For example,
A:\amd64
\x32
txtsetup.oem
To enhance IDE transfer speed, we strongly recommend you install JMicron IDE/SATA Driver.
Update Date   2009-02-23
Your System OS   Windows Vista 32/64bit
(4032KB)
Windows XP 32bit
(4032KB)
Intel TPM Device Driver
Description   Intel Trusted Platform chipset driver
XP/Vista/Win7: 2.00.0000.00
Update Date   2007-11-02
Your System OS   Vista/Win7 32/64bit
(23KB)
Windows XP 32bit
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On a side note, I have already flashed the BIOS to 1.4 using the Forum USB Flashing Tool (thanks!).

Thanks.
After booting from the Windows 7 disc, I selected Repair Windows, Load Drivers. Which specific controllers do I need to install for the P55-CD53 MB since there are multiple controllers listed for each of the four SATA compressed files?
Considering the multiple files and multiple controllers, is there no one out there with a P55-CD53 that has AHCI mode enabled that can give dumbed down instructions on how to do so?
The manual states "Select the appropriate RAID controller and press enter." Well... which one is the appropriate controller? Am I suppose to load the driver for all the AHCI controllers if that's even possible?
For the Intel P55 AHCI / RAID Drivers compressed file, these are the controllers available within F6flpy64\iaAHCI.inf:
Intel(R) ESB2 SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH 10D/DO SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH7M/MDH SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH8M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH8R/DH/DO SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) PCH SATA AHCI Controller
Intel(R) PCHM SATA AHCI Controller 4 Port
Intel(R) PCHM SATA AHCI Controller 6 Port
Also, regarding the dual BIOS controls for SATA/IDE/RAID settings previously mentioned, I believe SATA ports 1-6 are controlled via Intel and 7,8 are controlled via Jmicron. Considering my HDD is currently plugged into SATA 1, Jmicron probably isn't necessary for the moment.
Edit:
Turns out that none of the drivers for the controllers listed in iaAHCI.inf could be installed. However, I went ahead and installed the drivers listed for all the controllers in iaStor.inf. I reinstalled Windows 7 to get rid of the BSOD. I then installed the chipset drivers and Intel Matrix Storage Manager.

Can't install Storage manager drivers

Hi, I have a problem. I removed the Vista, installed XP but cant install the Storage manager drivers.
I get this this computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software
Can u help?

hy , thanks for the answer. i created a wp cd with nlite just now. i found some inf files that i placed on it. becouse the driver i got from toshiba for my L300
( http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU ) has only an readme, web, pdf and an application in the down archive. now i presed F6 than S and now i am getting " setup could not find a floppy drive on the machine to load oem drivers ... esc or exit...
can u please help !!!

Intel Matrix Storage Manager disables Windows Update and Windows Validation on Windows 7 64-bit

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad R61 8918CTO on which I did a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (64-bit) on a new Seagate Momentus XT 750GB drive. The installation was trouble-free, as were all of the post-install Windows Updates.
Then I installed ThinkVantage System Update 4.03 and used it to install most of the available Lenovo updates. Big mistake. I'll spare you a detailed account of the hours I wasted troubleshooting, rolling back to previous restore points, and doing more troubleshooting, but it turns out that installing Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver v. 8.9.2.1002 caused Windows Update and Windows Validation to fail.
Symptoms: Windows Update control panel can't check for updates and reports that the Windows Update service isn't running when it actually is. Online Windows Validation fails and the standalone Windows Validation utility won't install. Microsoft programs that require a validated copy of Windows (e.g., Microsoft Security Essentials) won't install.
Solution: Roll back the driver for the relevant SATA controller to the previous driver.
I've reinstalled ThinkVantage System Update 4.03 and hidden the proposed Intel Matrix Storage Manager update; since then, I've used it to complete my Lenovo updates without issue.
I hope this post will help other people with this problem find the solution a lot faster than it took me!

This happened after installing a new advanced format drive with 4k-byte sectors, I'd guess. If the storage driver doesn't report the physical sector size to Windows, update fails.
I just ran across this myself (again) putting Win 7 on a T400.
I don't know why this is still going on. It may be that the update lists for older machines still have pre-AF-drive drivers listed.
FYI, another fix is going to the Intel site and installing the latest Matrix Storage Manager AHCI driver. This may be more desirable than rolling back to an older driver in some cases.
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Satellite L555-S7008 - cant install Intel Storage Manager for Win XP

I have installed XP on my laptop.
Everything works fine except that I cant put it into Ahci mode.
I Installed xp under compatability mode because I am supposed to be able to install the sata drivers by running Intel Storage Manager.
I have tried the version on this website as well as one from Intel, and they both stop with the error
"Your computer is not does not meet the minimum requirements for this software".
I have also gathered that I can extract the drivers from this package, and install them manually,
however when i try, it say drivers extracted successfully, yet nothing is extracted.
Can someone please help me get the Storage manager to install so I can run Ahci mode.

Hi
Satellite L555-S7008 belongs to the Toshiba US series.
You have to download the drivers from the Toshiba US driver page:
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp
There is a Intel Storage Manger:
Intel Matrix Storage Manager for Windows XP/Vista/7 (32/64)(v8.9.0.1023; 10-23-2009; 4.25M)
You will need to set SATA to AHCI before including this to the Win XP setup.

Need help with XP instal. stuck at: Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver

I've bought a new 2.0 ghz laptop with vista blah blah but i want to change to XP.
I've
bought a new copy of XP and am ready to go then first issue was during
installation the screen says can't find harddrive installed.
I
then found some thread somewhere which i've lost that said to buy an
external floppy drive and downloaded that floppy driver thingy that i
need to get past that stage from the toshiba website..
FYI driver name: SA200 ACHI F6-1017-XP
That
worked fine.. when it said press F8 if you agree to install XP i nearly
wet myself.. anyhow after it formatted the drive it then asked me this:
Insert the disk labeled:
*Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver*
into drive A:
* Press ENTER when ready
WTF are you talking about laptop? can someone please help me past this stage?
:-( :-( i only want XP installed.
So far its been like 3 weeks since i've been trying to install it
Message was edited by: IamMILOS

Here are detailed instructions I found earlier:
Installing a Retail (street copy) version of Windows XP on a Vista Toshiba Laptop.
- If the Toshiba laptop has a seperate BIOS for XP and Vista, download and flash the XP BIOS over the Vista BIOS.
- If XP Setup does not detect the SATA Hard Disk, simply turn on "SATA Compatibility Mode" in the BIOS if applicable. If this option is not available, follow these steps:
1) Download the Windows XP SATA F6 driver from the Toshiba Support/Downloads Website.
If an individual F6 driver is not available, download and unzip the Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver. The Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver package should contain some folders under the "F6flpy" folder. For example: ICH7M_32bit for an ICH7 based chipset when installing Windows XP 32bit.
2) Copy the F6 driver files (iastor.inf, etc..) to a blank floppy disk. The actual files must reside in the root directory of the Floppy Disk. For example, A:\iastor.inf, A:\iaahci.inf, etc..
3) Use a Toshiba USB Floppy Drive with the Toshiba notebook. (some non-Toshiba USB Floppy Drives may not function properly during XP setup)
4) Boot from Windows XP CD-ROM, start the installation and ensure the floppy disk is inserted in the USB Floppy Drive.
5) When XP Setup prompts you to press F6 to install a Storage Driver, immediately press F6.
6) When XP Setup prompts you to select a SATA driver, select the appropriate driver and continue. For example: ICH7M Intel(R) 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller, ICH8M Intel(R) 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller
7) Keep the Floppy Drive attached and Floppy Disk inserted until XP has completed its installation. Do not Partition or Format the Hard Disk during XP Setup. The SATA drivers from the Floppy Disk are copied and stored on the Hard Disk during XP installation.

Equium L40 HDD sata drivers for Windows 7

I have Equium L40 17M (PLS49E) running XP... and i want to install Windows 7 and cant.... i need the sata HDD drivers .
But i cannot find these anywere.. i tried the Toshiba driver site and some other driver sites .
I had the same problem when i wanted to go from Vista to XP
And found out i just needed to add the HDD Sata driver into the ISO i was making
I having tried the Vista drivers in it
So does anyone know were the Windows 7 HDD sata drivers are (storage manager)
or if i can use the Vista ones
Thanks
Joepeash

Hi
Normally you can get all drivers on the Toshiba page:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com => Support & Downloads => Download Drivers
I have checked the page and it seems that for Windows 7 not all drivers available. So as you already wrote you can try the Vista driver because the most of them are also work on Windows 7.
Alternative you can check the Intel page. Maybe there you can find a newer driver that was official released for Windows 7.
If you dont know how to use this driver exactly, use the forum search. You will find hundreds of threads. ;)

Confused with Raid Sata drivers

Sata,Raid
Should I install these Drivers?
Which one.
Do I need a raid card?
Building Computer for my wife.Ready to install OS.
I got a floppy with MB.Says drivers for VIA sata raid.
Floppy has two folders Pide and Raid.
Checked with manual but still not sure if I must install
these drivers when installing XP.MB has Integrated dual channel native Serial ATA/RAID controller that will supply 150MB/s and support RAID 0, RAID 1.
AMD Sempron 3000+ 1.8GHz Socket 754 64-Bit Processor Retail
MSI K8MM-V MS-7142 Motherboard,VIA K8M800-CE + VT8237R Chipset
Western Digital Caviar SE Sata WD-1600JS 160gb 8m-S2JS
ASUS G-Force N6200 128 mb AGP Video Card
DVD-RW DL LightScribe
512 DDR 400 Ram
Have WinXP 64 bit "no legal serial"
Installing WinXP Pro SP2 32 bit "Legal"

Didn't even clic in what raid was about.Duh. In the bios on this board it had to be set as IDE.Under sata I had two settings Raid or IDE.I thought noway its IDE so I went raid.So thanks it worked right away.Didnt even have to install sata drivers at the OS XP install.I just went with it and it worked.This is what I got in device manager.
IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers:
Primary IDE Channel 5.1.2600.2180
Primary IDE Channel 5.1.2600.2180
Secondary IDE Channel 5.1.2600.2180
Secondary IDE Channel 5.1.2600.2180
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller 5.1.2600.2180
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller 5.1.2600.2180
A little confusing but it works great.It also recognized my 160gig HDD.The full 160.I was surprised.

Equium P200-1IR Installing Windows XP Problem - SATA Drivers

Good day,
I will like to know how to go about removing vista from the above Toshiba model and replace with win XP as the SATA HDD denied me.
Your urgent response will be highly appreciated.
Regards
kazeem

Hi!
Its pretty easy to remove Vista and install XP.
First of all, you need a Windows XP CD and license.
To install it, you need the SATA driver or you change the SATA mode in BIOS from AHCI to compatible but so you will lost a little bit performance and I think this is not so good.
The SATA driver is in the Intel Storage Manager and after you booted from CD you must press F6 to load it from an external FDD or you create your own CD with this driver. There is a good tool like nLite.
http://www.nliteos.com/
If you booted from CD, you can format the HDD and delete the partitions.
Bye!

Equium P200-1ED Installing Windows XP Problem - SATA Drivers

I have just bought a Toshiba Equium P200-1ED laptop with Vista installed and want to install my copy of Windows XP Pro. This is the latest disc with SP2 included.
When I boot up it does not recognise the hard drive. I assume I need to download these drivers and load them onto a floppy and hit F6 when the windows setup screen prompts me to do so.
Questions are;
1) Where can I get these drivers from?
2) Will the machine recognise a USB floppy Drive?
3) Am I right about what I need to do?
Thanks in advance for your help. :8}

How to install XP Home on the following Vista laptop. 05/01/08
Toshiba Equium A200-1V0 PSAF5E
Introduction
These are the steps taken by us to remove Vista from our Toshiba laptop and replace it with XP Home. There may be inconsistencies in our methods and we may not have all of the exact drivers installed, but everything appears to work OK for us.
Our laptop now runs much faster, opens and closes faster and is more stable.
This is not a 5 minute operation. It should not be attempted by anyone with only a passing knowledge of computers as it is very easy to screw things up. The shop you bought your PC from will charge a lot to fix things and they will probably insist on re-installing Vista!!.
Be prepared that this will also probably invalidate your warranty.
Luckily, I have a 2nd PC running XP that allows me to access the web. This is very useful as it means that while your Vista machine is 'broken' you can still search for help and download driver files. I also used my 2nd PC to create the modified XP installation CD mentioned further on.
You must have access to the web via some PC or other to get the required drivers.
Method
Firstly, while you still have Vista on your laptop machine, download and run an interrogation program such as 'Belarc advisor' which will list all the drivers and software that are installed on your laptop. Print it out for future reference.This may be useful later when searching on the web for any drivers that may need updating.
Now, make sure you have noted down all the required settings for your Internet connection.
Also, backup any files that you may have placed on the hard drive as you will lose the lot including any emails and address books and web favourites etc.
Unfortunately, the Toshiba disc that comes with this laptop does not appear to have any of the required drivers with it. Instead, I think that it relies on Vista keeping copies on your hard drive. This is not very bright as when the hard drive fails you have lost everything!
This therefore means that you have to go on the web and search for all the required drivers to run XP successfully.
Some we could not find, for example the Wireless network adapter, however this was no problem as once we had installed XP and connected to the web via the Ethernet cable to our Router we were able to run 'Update Driver' for each item missing.
Go to 'Device Manager' via 'Control Panel' then 'System' then 'Hardware'. Then look for any yellow question marks for any problems. Right click and run 'Update Driver' for the hardware update wizard and allow the PC to look on the web 'this time only'.
The ones we did this way were: Wireless adapter, Audio adapter.
Unfortunately an original XP SP2 CD does not contain the required drivers for this laptop. Therefore when you boot the CD it will, after a few minutes of installing files, say that you have a hardware problem as there are no drives present.
To rectify this, you will need to download the correct Intel ICH8M SATA AHCI Controller drivers. I couldn't find this on the Intel website, but instead searched on Google for it. and got it from: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2101
The other required drivers that we found on the web were:
Intel chipset device software installer
Web page
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=N&ProductID=816&DwnldID=14528 &strOSs=45&OSFullName=Windows* XP Home Edition&lang=eng
Or if this link doesn't work try this:
http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/inf/sb/CS-021273.htm
Select 'Download Intel chipset software installation utility' on the left hand side and select your operating system 'XP Home'
Select 'INF Update Utility - primarily for Intel 3, 900 series chipsets'
and download it.
Intel graphics driver: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset
Web page
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=N&ProductID=2800&DwnldID=1438 8&strOSs=45&OSFullName=Windows*%20XP%20Home%20Edit ion&lang=eng
Or if this link doesn't work try this:
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intelgm965/
Now select 'software and drivers' on the left hand side and select your operating system 'XP Home'
You will be presented with a list of files.
Select Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Windows* XP (exe)
and download it.
Marvell Yukon Ethernet Driver
Web page
http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=175
Or if this link doesn't work try this:
http://www.marvell.com/drivers/search.do?reload=false
On the right hand side, select 'W2000/ XP/2003/Vista x86 & x64 Multi-Language Installer (32-bit and 64-bit) for Yukon Devices'
Creating the XP Drivers disc
Add the SATA drivers to a copy of your XP install CD using a program such as NLite.
You will need enough spare hard drive memory to take a copy of your XP install CD (approx 700MB).
Run the program 'sp37005.exe' and it will install to your hard drive. Don't install to a floppy.
Download 'NLite' from: http://www.nliteos.com/download.html
When you run NLite it will probably say that you need to install '.net Framework', if so, quit NLite and go and find the program. This is a Microsoft program that you can find by searching on Google for the relevant page on the Microsoft website.
Now place your XP install disc in your CD drive, if it autoruns, exit it.
Then run Nlite and follow on screen instructions.
The program will ask where your XP disc is then it will ask where you want to save the copy.
On the 'Task selection' screen select 'Drivers' and 'Bootable ISO'. then press 'Next'.
Now select 'Insert' then 'Multiple Driver folder' and go and find your downloaded SATA driver files. Now select 'All' and 'OK. The program will list the available SATA drivers. Only select the two that mention 'ICH8M'. Now press 'Next'. The screen will show the selected drivers. Press 'Next' again and then 'Yes' to the prompt, and then 'Next' when done
You are now presented with the 'Bootable ISO' screen.
Put a new burnable CD in your CD writer, wait for it to be recognised and exit any window that might pop up to allow you to install files
Now, in Nlite, under 'Mode' select 'Direct Burn'
Under 'Label' enter something like ' XP for Toshiba Equium A200' to identify the disc.
Leave Advanced settings alone and now add in the other required drivers by clicking explore and copying them to the root directory of the temporary XP directory on your hard disc. It might be best to create a 'Drivers' folder in the root directory to make them easy to find later.
Now click the 'Burn' button. Now follow the rest of the instructions to complete.
You have now created an XP install disc which contains your required SATA drivers.
-As you can tell, this is quite convuluted but avoids you having to buy a USB floppy drive and it provides a neat solution.
Hasta La Vista!!
Now you are ready to begin the cleansing process, if you are brave enough to continue....
Firstly, re-boot your laptop and while booting press F12 to change the boot order so that the DVD/CD ROM is first. Alternatively use F2 and then change the Boot order from there.
Now insert your new XP install disc in the DVD/CD drive and re-boot the PC, selecting boot from CD when prompted.
The XP CD will now start copying files and eventually will display an options screen
Select to install Windows.
Then delete the C: hard drive partition (with Vista on)
Delete the F drive partition used by Vista also.
You will have to follow lots of warning prompts to delete the partitions.
Now follow the instructions to create an NTFS partition on the C drive.
Now install XP as instructed.
Don't worry that the graphics are a bit chunky as once Windows has finished installing you can run the graphics driver you copied to the the XP CD to correct this.
Run the three driver files:
win2k_xp14311.exe Intel graphics driver
infinst_autol.exe Intel chipset software installation utility'
setup.exe Marvell Yukon Ethernet Driver
Your graphics should now improve and you should now be able to connect to the web (after running the web setup wizard). But don't do this until you have installed your Antivirus and Firewall software.
Now go to 'Device Manager' via 'Control Panel' then 'System' then 'Hardware'. Then look for any yellow question marks for any problems. Right click and run 'Update Driver' for the hardware update wizard and allow the PC to look on the web 'this time only'.
Hopefully, everything should now run OK.
Now go and have a drink to celebrate!

Can SATA drivers be loaded in windows????

Hi,
I forgot to click on F6 when loading windows XP to install my SATA drives. How can that be done now that XP has been installed?
I also have drive letters all over the place. HD1 is I and HD2 is J. I think I can change them in system maint.
Thanks,
Swen

Hello Swen,
Glad to see you made it back to this forum after the database program they experienced last night. Tried to send you a personal message this morning but you were not even in the database anymore. Hope you got my last message.
You do not need to install SATA drivers with F6 during windows installation. The F6 step described in your manual is only needed if you intend to install your operating system to a SATA drive or a RAID set up. If your operating system is being install to IDE drive then your SATA driver can be installed later on after you got windows on board as part of the Nvidia 5.10 drivers package. If you are really intending to install your operating system to a SATA drive then go to this thread: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=76886.0
If not, you will have windows XP set up, goto device manager and then left click on + sign in front of "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" & then right click on "Nvidia nForce4 Serial ATA controller" & then select properties. In the new windows that opened select the driver tab. This will list what you have installed as a SATA driver.
Whatever you do make sure that you get the latest Nvidia 5.10 drivers package from the Nvidia site itself. I believe that MSI site still only offers version 5.03.
For your drive letter question simply click on start and then "Help and Support". When help and support windowns opens up, type this in the search window and then press the search arrow: "assign change or remove a drive letter". You can then look at the left hand result window and select "assign change or remove a drive letter". The right hand pane will now offer you two methods to use to proceed:
1- Windows interface
2- Command lines
How is your daughter's system coming along?

Equium P200-1ED PSPB5E - Storage and Sound drivers download

I am after the following XP drivers, but the links on the downloads are dead.
"Storage Manager" - http://support2.toshiba-tro.de/ftedd-files2/0/fstormng-20070827133046.zip
Realtek Sound" - http://support2.toshiba-tro.de/tedd-files2/0/sound-20070821163751.zip
I did try calling support but their only suggestion was to try again in a few days.
Does anybody happen to know another URL, or have copies.
Many thanks in advance

Unfortunately, every other download on there works :)
It has to be said that these laptops are a damn site faster on XP than Vista.

Olympic Medals, Sata Drivers and Rebuilds

Hi all,
Background:
I posted a while ago (https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threadid=54413&hilight=fizz) about my hard drives being so unbelievably mashed that I couldn't even load the recovery console ... Bas said it may have been an "NTFS bug", although I don't quite understand what that means
* tried CHKDSK from WinME Boot Disk .... typed
chkdsk c: /f ///didn't do anything, just listed a lot of "volumem label" information and terminated ... does WinME's Boot Disk not recognise NTFS?
* tried CHKDSK from WinXP Boot Disks (6 floppies) ... that, just like the WinXP Setup CD, didn't get past the "Examining Disk 0 on id 0 etc....." stage to load the Recovery Console.
* my only option was to wipe everything from the drives using a complete "Zero Fill" with Seagate DiscWizard Starter Edition. That fixed the problem, altough it took about 7 hours to do both disks! I now have two totally blank HDDs.
Moving On
Now I'm reinstalling WinXP again ... I want to do it all correctly. I intend to use the VIA controller rather than the Promise. When I F6 to load the drivers from the Via floppy during XP Installation, I am presented with a whole list of drivers. In the past, I always installed the following (in the order shown):
(1) Via ATA host driver for Windows XP
(2) Via SATA RAID driver for Windows XP
... is that correct? Should I be installing both? and in that order?
The manual came with a booklet called "Serial ATA RAID ... Serial ATA = Quick User's Guide" ... that is packed to the brim with information on using the Promise Controller but says nothing at all (that I've seen) about the VIA controller. There doesn't seem to be any mention of advice in the official documentation, which seems a bit strange.
Once in XP, you can use the Promise Utility from the CD to set the HDD Cache to enabled or disabled, and set the policy to write-through or write-back. Is this control not possible with the VIA?
Next , partitioning:
Rather than let the XP Setup CD partition the drives this time, I let DiscWizard do it (Seagate recommend that and my drives are made by them...): It did this:
Partition: 1 //i.e. number of partitions = 1
Size: 120GB //i.e. the full size of my HDD
Cluster Size: 4KB
Type: NTFS
Does that look ok?
Next , not repeating same old mistakes:
However I managed to pick up this "NTFS Bug", I'd rather not do it again. Can anyone seee an error in what I did?
* load XP as described, loading BOTH aforementioned drivers from F6 floppy
* once in XP, load Via 4-1 drivers from CD
* load NVidia drivers (my friend said load those (from NVidia website) instead of the Creative labs drivers that came with my graphics card ... the card is made by Creative, but uses an NVidia chip = any recommendations?
* load software applications
... of course, I'm still using the BIOS that came with the Motherboard back in February ... haven't progressed past that yet. Is this the correct order of tasks? Cheers.
Olympics:
In the spirit of the games, I think I deserve the MSI Gold Medal award for "Longest Time Spent With a Non-Working PC" ... I wish it to be known that I achieved this feat without the use of performance enhancing drugs. Thank you.
Fizz

First off, I've used both Promise and Via controllers without incident. SiSoft Sandra shows Via as being much faster in benchmarking, but I doubt there's any real-world difference although there's lots of others in this forum who will disagree. I started with the Promise controller for the first 6 months, but when I switched to Via, I was able to load the drivers from Windows after enabling the Via controller in BIOS. One thing I would recommend is not using any software utilities from any Hard Drive manufacturer, this software causes a lot of issues, you're better off to let Windows handle anything. If I were you and hadn't spent too much time loading stuff yet, I would go back to starting with blank discs. Put your Windows CD in and use F6 to load the SATA drivers (see the stickies at the top on this). Here's a link to a post where I got help with switching from Promise to Via link. Maybe something there will help you.

GD85 and New Intel SATA drivers

Intel updated thier SATA drivers for RAID so that TRIM will work correctly.
Does one of you experts know if the new Intel drivers are included in BIOS update
V1.3 07/12/2010??
Pat

Guys, I misspoke, I am not talking about the BIOS, I am talking about the Intel SATARaid drivers listed on the download website with a date of 01 2010. These are the Rapid Storage Technology drivers. I know that Intel released a new Rapid Storage Technology driver to solve a problem with TRIM when the Intel SATARAID technology is used in a RAID
mode. Basically TRIM wont work on a RAID array because of a problem in the Intel driver.
I am wondering is the 01-10 version on the download site includes the new fix.
If it doesnt can I use the Intel driver from the Intel website

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