reinstalling windows

xirokx

xirokx

xirokx

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Hi,

Trying to reinstall windows on a Gateway Laptop (I know terrible!!!)

So after performing 100's of reinstall I finally meet a challenge...

After the initial load screen and when you press Enter to install windows I receive the following error message "setup could not find a hard drive"...And it only provides the F3 option to quit...

What is happening? Is the harddrive dead? Cant be because I can get into the desktop fine and navigate around...

So why am I receiving this message?

Please help

Thanks
 
You may need to press one of the F keys (F3 or 8?) when it asks if you wish to load a third party raid/drive driver early on in the setup, and point it to the correct SATA driver for the controller used in the laptop.
 
the harddrive does not have the correct sata driver...

so i need a floppy usb drive which holds the driver so during setup when i press f6 i can point to the correct location...

surely there must be another way?
 
i have downloaded the driver required from Gateway website but to open it I need a floppy drive...

I wonder if its available already extracted? Its the intel driver...

This is the precise driver I require:-

File Description: Gateway(r) Notebook Computer Intel SATA Support Driver
Version: D00455-001-001
Operating System: Microsoft(r) Windows(r) XP Tablet OS
Part Number: D00455-001-001.exe
Date: 03/28/2006

When I downloaded this driver from Gateway website the readme file advised me to open F6flpy32.exe file located inside which further extracts to release the driver...

Regretably due to not owning a floppy drive I cannot do this, I therefore wonder if anyone has this driver in particular the F6flpy32.exe already extracted that they could email or upload for me?

Thanks in advance..
 
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you can extract the contents of the exe with winrar.
Which in turn will leave you with an IMA file.

Google "extract IMA file" it`ll come up with a lot of hits most of them suggesting "magicISO" to do the job
 
Just had a thought
Ive got UltraISO on my XP boot. Just tried it in that and they extracted fine :)
Ive zipped them up and emailed them to your msn addy

hope that helps
 
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