If the computer is off, then turn it on, and insert the Windows CD into the CD drive.Ħ. Connect the Toshiba 3.5' External USB Floppy Disk Drive to the notebook computer.ĥ. Insert the Windows XP or Windows 2000 CD into the computer's CD drive and restart the computer. Procedureįollow these steps to install both the Toshiba RAID driver / Serial ATA driver and Windows XP or Windows 2000 on a Toshiba computers that use a Serial ATA hard drive controller:ġ. (Using another computer) download the Toshiba RAID Driver / Serial ATA Driver package.Ģ. Extract the driver files from the ZIP package to a folder on your desktop.ģ. Copy the driver files to a blank formatted diskette. Once the files have been copied, eject the diskette from the drive.Ĥ. In particular, it's necessary to be ready to press the F6 key as soon as the prompt for it appears (see Step 7). Read through the entire procedure below before attempting it. If Windows Setup stops as indicated in the screen shot above, it will be necessary to restart it, as described below. If a diskette drive is not available, then Windows 2000 or Windows XP may be installed (on Toshiba notebooks with a Serial ATA hard disk drive contoller) only from the Recovery CD or DVD that's packaged with the computer.

For information about this drive, or to purchase it, visit Toshiba Direct's Accessories page. The ideal diskette drive to use for this procedure is the Toshiba 3.5' External USB Floppy Disk Drive. If you have a CD containing the driver, copy it to a diskette before starting the procedure below (and skip the steps concerning downloading and unzipping the driver).

Windows Setup can install the required driver only from a diskette (floppy disk) - not from a CD, or from any other media. Resolutionįollow the procedure below to install both the Toshiba RAID driver / Serial ATA driver and Windows XP or Windows 2000 on Toshiba computers that use a Serial ATA hard drive controller. Other hard disk drive interfaces that typically require additional drivers from the Host Bus Adapter manufacturer include FC-AL (Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop) and SCSI. To install Windows on a Toshiba computer with a Serial ATA drive, it's necessary to install the Toshiba RAID driver / Serial ATA driver during the Windows Setup installation process. This includes Windows XP (with or without SP1 or SP2) and Windows 2000. Microsoft Windows does not - as of October 2005 - have built-in support for Serial ATA (SATA) controllers and hard disk drives. This problem may be caused by the absence of a required driver for the Serial ATA disk drive. Windows Setup may report this information in a message similar to this one: Windows 2000 or Windows XP Setup may not be able to complete the installation of Windows, because it does not detect the computer's Serial ATA disk drive controller.

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