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by dangolrajesh

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I have bought toshiba satellite A205-S5831 with vista. But I want to degrade it to windows xp.While installing xp it says that "no harddisk were found ..........". It need sata drive drivers. Do anyone have idea where can i download the sata driver for it. or is there any other way to install it.
Thanks in advance.

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by rob miners

Download nLite

http://home.midmaine.com/~nlite/nlite/nLite-1.4.8.installer.exe

These are the steps that I took

Download the Sata Drivers from the manufacturesrs web site. http://tinyurl.com/4r739v

Installed Nlite

Extracted Sata Drivers to a folder named Sata

Copied the entire XP CD to a folder named XPS

Ran Nlite and Browsed to the XPS folder, Next, next then selected Drivers and Bootable ISO click next

At the Drivers Tab click insert, single driver and navigate to the folder with the inf for windows XP.

Highlight it and select open and select next. Select Textmode driver and select the XP Sata driver and click OK.

Click next and Yes to apply changes, next and select Make ISO. And use Nero or similar to burn it to a CD.

Keep us informed as to your progress if you require further assistance.

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