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Horace · 19-05-2010, 19:58

I'm in the process of installing XP onto a new hard drive as a replacement operating system at the owners request. The previous hard drive containing Windows 7 died after the laptop was dropped but the rest of the laptop is fine. I've installed XP in compatibility mode (using the setting in the bios) and it crawls due to slow hard drive access, HDTach confirms that. I've downloaded 3 sets of Intel drivers and all are blue screening at install time. I'm using a virtual floppy on a usb stick to install. Toshiba's site gives no indication of the actual controller and Intel's site is just as useless. So, can anyone think of a way to identify the controller to allow correct driver acquisition , other than opening the laptop up and possibly identifying by the IC. I'm asking more for future reference because I'm currently installing Win7 via the laptops recovery discs to identify it.

The laptop model is L500D-16L in case anyone sees something obvious that I've missed from the Toshiba or Intel site.

19-05-2010, 19:58	#1
Horace ©Beam Software Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Teesside Services: BB (200mbit), 1x V6, iPad, iPhone Posts: 1,411	Identifying an AHCI controller in XP (Laptop) I'm in the process of installing XP onto a new hard drive as a replacement operating system at the owners request. The previous hard drive containing Windows 7 died after the laptop was dropped but the rest of the laptop is fine. I've installed XP in compatibility mode (using the setting in the bios) and it crawls due to slow hard drive access, HDTach confirms that. I've downloaded 3 sets of Intel drivers and all are blue screening at install time. I'm using a virtual floppy on a usb stick to install. Toshiba's site gives no indication of the actual controller and Intel's site is just as useless. So, can anyone think of a way to identify the controller to allow correct driver acquisition , other than opening the laptop up and possibly identifying by the IC. I'm asking more for future reference because I'm currently installing Win7 via the laptops recovery discs to identify it. The laptop model is L500D-16L in case anyone sees something obvious that I've missed from the Toshiba or Intel site.