I’ve just tried to re-install Win XP on my Toshiba Satellite A200.
I kept getting the ” … no hard disk found…” message as WinXP doesn’t provide any SATA drivers (even SP3).
If you’re having the same problem then here are some basic instructions and the Toshiba Satellite A200 SATA Drivers. (If you link to this, please link to the page not the drivers – I’ll be moving the files shortly – thanks)
The only way to install XP with these extra drivers intact is to slipstream WinXP using n-lite. Follow the link and you’ll find the program and all the instructions to do it.
I’ll briefly run through the process I used to extract the SATA files in case anyone finds it useful in future.
I downloaded the SA200 ACHI F6-1017-XP file from Toshiba, it comes as a handy exe which installs it onto a Floppy Disk – of course, like most of you, I don’t use or even have a Floppy Disk drive anymore so it was useless .. until … I found a Floppy Drive emulation program – FileDisk-15, a bit fiddly to use but it does the trick. Of course, running the .exe file from Toshiba couldn’t find the Floppy Emulator so I had to download IZArc a handy little freeware ZIP utility, which managed to extract the .IMA files from the toshiba executable … you following?
Once the .IMA was extracted, it was a fairly simple(ish) task to mount it with FileDisk and copy the files off (to three seperate locations – 2 on my Hard Disks and one on the Interweb – mainly so I never have to mess about extracting them again).
Once they were Slipstreamed into XP using n-lite – I had a happy little A200 that is now freshly installed with XP.
Well, I hope that helped you out and saved you a bit of time.
Oh man, you is my hero!
Thanks a lot, dude!
Neat job extracting them. Thank you, I too now have a happy A200 with XP
Thanks, very helped!