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by cecilmash2000

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I'm having a problem with my toshiba u300 152 laptop.Somehow i managed to forget my password or someone changed it(use it with my cheeky brothers).I now cant log into the machine anyhow
and i dont have the vista cd for reinstallation.I've been trying to load xp but whenever it starts the installation process it reaches a point just after copying the boot files it cant find the harddisk installed.
Am stuck from there,i tried the repair option so that i can remove vista with the dos prompt but when i click on repair it says it cant find a hard disk.
Anyone with an idea as to how i will go through with this????

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by oh smeg

You have a SATA Drive in the NB and XP doesn't natively Support SATA Drives.

You can either load the SATA Drivers by making a copy of them to the Root of a Floppy and when the first Blue Screen of the XP install loads press the [b]F6 Key[/b] and wait till you are prompted to insert a Floppy into Drive A with the SCSI or whatever Drivers on it.

If you do not have a floppy drive to load the SATA Drivers from you can make yourself a Slipstreamed copy of the XP Install Disc by either following the directions here

http://tinyurl.com/326fg3

or a downloadable copy of the same thing here

http://tinyurl.com/2ehzk3

Or you can use nLite to make your own Slipstreamed Install copy of XP with the Drivers and Patches/Service Packs incorporated into the Install Disc. Just remember to read the instructions for this application.

http://tinyurl.com/e2mo4

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by cecilmash2000

I managed to integrate the xp with sp2 and the drivers(though they are not the drivers for the hard disk,couldn't find drivers for fujitsu MHY2250BH) but when it comes to burning i dont know how to burn it to be bootable under nero 7,bruining the iso file made with nLite does not work.

Another thing i have tried is copying the drivers in the flash and pressing F6 during setup,it told me it cant find txtsetup.oem file and i downloaded it and put it there.Funny thing it still gives me the same error,cant find txtsetup.oem.There is a setup that am not quite getting about the flash process,my flash is a teveron 1GB from the txtsetup.oem you are supposed to describe your flash.Look at it here
http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00107.html

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