I Don't Have Amd Sata Controller Driver
Bought a brand new Toshiba L675-119 laptop and brought it with me. It's a 64 bit machine, running on Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit (pre-installed). I desperately need to dual boot it with Win XP Pro SP3, of which I have the install disk. I've read your slipstream tutorial (excellent !) as well as all 13 pages on this topic here. Alas, I am stuck, confused, and in desperate need of help.
I can't use the F6 method, since my laptop obviously hasn't got a floppy drive.
The other school of thought, in the early pages here, mentions disabling SATA support in the BIOS. Unfortunately, Toshiba has barred access to the BIOS in the normal way during bootup, but has provided an utility : 'HWSetup'--this however only provides, under the tab for SATA, an option to 'disable eSATA' -- description given : 'disables the SATA port in order to save battery life'.
I get the feeling this is not the same thing as disabling SATA support, as per the method recommended on this forum ?
If not, this leaves me with the tutorial about slipstreaming SATA drivers into my existing Win XP Pro + SP3 install disc.
Since this would then be the obvious way to go for me, I have had enormous difficulty understanding where to find these drivers -- read all your replies to other 'posters' , but no joy for me (Intel website just serve to confuse me).
I found this website, which put up all Toshiba Satellite L675 Drivers For Windows 7 (64 Bit), and which I had now downloaded :
Toshiba Driver-Toshiba Laptop: Toshiba Satellite L675 Drivers For Windows 7 (64 Bit)
Could you please tell me if I should slipstream these drivers into my Win XP Pro 32 bit install disk, in order to use as the dual boot install disc ?
Or if this is not the right drivers, please provide me with a link to the actual page for SATA drivers for my laptop (I have no idea on how to search the Intel website, or even if my drivers are there -- don't even know if I should download 32 bit or 64 bit drivers).
Some more information on my hardware, from BelArc Advisor :
Hard drive :
TOSHIBA MK6465GSX [Hard drive] (640.13 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 40M1S0QPS, rev GJ003M, SMART Status: Healthy
Controllers :
Intel(R) 5 Series 4 Port SATA AHCI Controller
Bus Adaptors :
Intel(R) 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller - 3B34
Intel(R) 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller - 3B3C
Please help : Are these drivers on the toshiba blog website mentioned above the correct ones, or if not, can you provide me with a direct link to the correct web page from where I can download the correct SATA drivers ?
Apologies for the long post --- your help would be deeply appreciated, I think this is my last hope !!
I just cloned Windows 7 64-bit professional from an existing drive to a new one on an HP Envy h8-1414. Now I'm at the Windows System Recovery Options screen (http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/68942-sata-drivers-load-windows-recovery-options.html) and I want to load a SATA driver so I can load up my old Windows 7 installation.
If you are installing Windows XP, you may need to have the SATA controller driver when installing a hard drive using AHCI mode. RAID Use RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) mode when you want to use more than one hard drive, either to increase storage space or create a backup disk.
Where can I get drivers to make this happen? I tried the HP website with no luck, and then I tried the Gigabyte website because it has a Gigbyte motherboard. I searched for the motherboard specified on the HP Envy h8-1414 specifications and didn't have much luck...so on the Support & Downloads page I selected Option 1. Search by Product Category and picked 'Socket AM3+' and the chipset 'AMD 970' and the model number is a mystery I don't know where to find that on the board...so I just picked one at random....but all I get are bios updates and motherboard manuals...no SATA Controller drivers for Windows 7 64-bit...what gives? Where can I find these drivers?
1 Answer
Following the details you provided, this should place you in the right path.please let us know some feedback.
note: you may have to run the setup but only let is extract the files. then find the f6 folder inside the extracted results. should be easy to find as usually it is named 'F6'
