I have a weird issue.

I have a Toshiba laptop Satellite M100 1511-e which is preinstalled with Windows XP Home ( Hard Disk Hitachi 80GB SATA ), Toshiba Recovery Tool works fine with the hard disk.

The issue arise when i decided to upgrade my hard disk to Seagate Momentus 5400.5 160GB. The Toshiba Recovery Tools Doesnt work at all.

Any input are appreciated the most

i have already created ISO file into a cd but it wont boot up when i start my laptop..should i need to extract the iso file and burn it like normal xp installation file?

yeap yeap. its a lets say important procedure. Extract the iso files and shud be fine i guess

Because the recovery tool is installed in your old hard drive in a hidden partition.

Open a new thread for this if you got any other question because it is not related to this thread.

You burn the ISO into the CD or you run the ISO and burn as CD?

Don't even answer if you don't even know what is going on.

actually i burn iso into a cd.
so i should extract the iso file first and burn it into a cd right?

Got it sorted out at last, the recovery tool is in the DVD itself.

the issue is the recovery tool itself, it only works if the new hard disk remain unformatted and no partition for the first recover.

second, third and the following recovery will work fine then.

No...you opent he ISO as image file and burn. Not burn it into the CD.

OK, Glad you got it sorted out.

Hi, after i follow the tutor that Subkiller post at the 1st post, i succed to install window in my SATA hdd (DEsktop). But the problem is this msg appeared before Window Xp logo appear (loading to windows). The Erroe/msg is like this :-
"Scan device
Press <TAb> key into window user!!!
(tab key pressed)
Notice :
The number of disk in adequate to create RAID !!! (while blinking in red color) what does it mean?

Hrm, that is not windows warning i think. I've never seen such warning by Windows before...

You might need to check your SATA/RAID settings in your bios or such...

I cannot find my SATA/RAID setting in bios...i already install the motherboard chipset...how to find ar??

What motherboard are you using?

OMG installing xp on SATA seems like a daunting task. Woah I'm so lazy to read & study how to install lol , thanks for this tutorial btw.

MSI PM8M-V + VT8237 chipseti. it's 478 socket. I already install the driver from the cd that come 2gether after i install windows. but in BIOS still no Sata detected. When i plug in IDE hdd, "NTLR is missing"

This post has been edited by naughtyz: Nov 10 2008, 07:00 PM

If BIOS can't detect the SATA hard drive, how does it get NTLDR missing?

I'm thinking about to change new motherboard. socket 478 with intel 945 chipset...this kinda motherboard can detect sata as a primary or not?

SATA doesn't bother if its primary or not AFAIK so should be a yes.

hello guys.. i have a notebook, toshiba v3000 series.. lately my laptop full of viruses, it keeps restarting my windows for several times but some other time its normally logon. i decided to reinstalling windows but the setup cd said cannot find any installed hard drive.. what does that mean? how to setup sata raid if i don't have floppy driveR?

have u got native SATA supported in bios?

native SATA? how to check that anyway?

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Added on November 24, 2008, 2:41 amby the way, sorry if OT but i want to ask, if i send my laptop to shop for repair, how much is the cost?

This post has been edited by waruna: Nov 24 2008, 02:41 AM

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