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I am searching for a driver for a Hitachi HTS545025B9A300 (alias Western Digital Travelstar) 230Gb drive so I can load a WIN XP Pro system from scratch onto it. WIN XP has almost no support on the MS disk for SATA drivers. The problem I am facing is that my ASUS X5DIJ laptop became unstable and as a result we completely wiped the hard drive and in the process removed the recovery partition and the MBR. By using a slave WIN 7 repair disk we were able to get it to boot into a command prompt from which we ran DISKPART to do a CLEAN ALL, a CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY, A Format NTFS and make the partition active.
Bootable CD's and a MS bootable WIN XP DVD will boot OK on this machine but a bootable WIN 7 DVD will not, despite every effort we have tried (and searched for solutions on the web). We now hope to install a fresh WIN XP Pro and then upgrade from that to a WIN 7 solution.
The factory restore DVD's refuse to boot - so we only have the XP route which may work provided we can get a suitable driver for the Hitachi disk when the XP install fails because it cannot recognise it without the correct driver.
BIOS Info:
>IDE Configuration
IDE Configuration
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SATA Operation Mode [Enhanced]
> AHCI Port0 [Hard Disk]
AHCI Port0
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Device: Hard Disk
Vendor: Hitachi HTS545025B9A300
Size: 250.0GB
LBA Mode: Supported
S.M.A.R.T.: Supported
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SATA Port0 [Auto]
>AHCI Port1 [ATAPI CDROM]
AHCI Port1
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Device: ATAPI CDROM
Vendor: HL-DT-STDVDRAM GT30N
LBA Mode: SUpported
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SATA Port1 [Auto]
Bootable CD's and a MS bootable WIN XP DVD will boot OK on this machine but a bootable WIN 7 DVD will not, despite every effort we have tried (and searched for solutions on the web). We now hope to install a fresh WIN XP Pro and then upgrade from that to a WIN 7 solution.
The factory restore DVD's refuse to boot - so we only have the XP route which may work provided we can get a suitable driver for the Hitachi disk when the XP install fails because it cannot recognise it without the correct driver.
BIOS Info:
>IDE Configuration
IDE Configuration
----------------------------------------
SATA Operation Mode [Enhanced]
> AHCI Port0 [Hard Disk]
AHCI Port0
-----------------------------------
Device: Hard Disk
Vendor: Hitachi HTS545025B9A300
Size: 250.0GB
LBA Mode: Supported
S.M.A.R.T.: Supported
-----------------------------------------------
SATA Port0 [Auto]
>AHCI Port1 [ATAPI CDROM]
AHCI Port1
-----------------------------------
Device: ATAPI CDROM
Vendor: HL-DT-STDVDRAM GT30N
LBA Mode: SUpported
-----------------------------------
SATA Port1 [Auto]
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