A200 sata drivers

[Erasmus Pipebagger]

Hi - I've been trying to "downgrade" a Satellite A200 to XP.

I've gotten all the files from the Toshiba site for XP, including the "Intel Storage Matrix Manager" which I'm led to believe contains the relevant files to enable an integrated (or F6) sata driver install. You may know this particular model has no floppy drive, and I don't want to have to buy a usb floppy drive.

All proceeds well - I set up the nlite modded XP disk to be bootable (which it is) and included the drivers on the install.

I boot the notebook from the freshly made CD and I get "iaStor.sys is corrupt" and cannot proceed further.

I have re-downloaded the files from Toshiba. I have tried burning at slower speeds, although I have absolutely no reason to doubt the burner or media (Verbatim).

Am I doing something wrong?. (Don't get me wrong - if the file(s) are corrupt, I know what that means)

I've tried settings in nlite such as textmode driver, regular pnp driver, single file, multiple folder, you name it.

Am I using the right files? (in the folder F6flpy). I've looked around the Tosh site for other sata files, to no avail. I even downloaded and intregrated the driverpack mass storage set of files - no luck, even messing with settings (txt, pnp single file, etc in nlite)

Please help!.

[Fernando 1]

Welcome at MSFN Forums!

The message "The file iastor.sys is corrupt" may be caused by 2 different issues:

1. You or someone else had integrated a 64bit Intel textmode driver into a 32bit OS or vice versa (most usual reason for that message).

Solution: You have to integrate the 32bit driver, if you are preparing a 32bit OS like Windows XP.

2. The driver has not been correctly downloaded, extracted or copied.

Solution: Look into this guide and download the 32bit Intel textmode driver driver, which is linked there.

Good luck!

Fernando

[Erasmus Pipebagger]

Yay! - the 32bit drivers from the link on the topic you sent me did it first time - now busily cooking XP with all possible tweaks, so it won't work when I've finished

Many thanks for your solution. I will go back to the toshiba drivers, to see what effect your other suggestions have, unless I find they are actually corrupt, because I hate being beaten by a machine!!.

Best regards - Erasmus.