SATA driver integration w/Toshiba *urgent*

[infocus]

I have a Toshiba Portege M400-S933 which has a SATA drive and Xp doesn't see it with a fresh install. I slipstreamed all the RAID and drive .INF files from the Toshiba site using nlite, and the new slipstreamed OS still doesn't see the drive!

Drivers:

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su...kceghdgngdgmm.0

Can someone help me out here? I would really, really be grateful and appreciative of a solution and quick as I need to get this lappy up ASAP! Any help is again greatly appreciated (such as preparing the proper files so I can just plug into nlite).

I will add that I'd love to find out what I'm doing wrong but right now I am in desperate need.

Thanks again in advance, whoever reads this and acts!!

[-I-]

http://www.driverpacks.net / not all people need the full set of drivers but i DO recoment anyone to atleast install the most recent driverpack for mass-storrage with the textmode . sif option ENABLED -

(if this is the only driverpack your going to install: use method one: and enable KTD ) .....

it wil hardley take mutch space in your cdrom, and makes installing to any sata raid or even scsi drive so mutch easier... -

[nuhi]

-I-, stop answering on every driver question with a link to the driver packs!

They are bloated and not related to this forum.

infocus, if the link that you provided is for your hardware then download the

Toshiba RAID Driver for Windows XP (v1.3.8.0; 04-10-2006; 465K)

And when you extract it choose in nlite - drivers - insert - multiple drivers folders - choose the folder in which you extracted the driver. Select both displayed folders on popup.

Then on the next popup select only Windows XP. Same goes for the second popup. That's it, then go next to the processing and create the ISO then boot from it once burned.

Be sure to use clean installation files before using them with nLite.

[infocus]

It really worked!!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!

It seems clear that the way to slipstream drivers with nLite is to find the specific driver you need and then point to the extracted folder where the drivers are and let nLite do the rest, rather than the way I did it which was to manually point to just one file.

Very, very cool stuff. Thank you again. I hope someone else learns from this!

As a side note, driverpacks.net looks interested, has anyone messed with it and were they getting good results with it finding hardware and installing according drivers?