thetechfreak
Legend Never Ends
Search Google and HP for drivers. You should be able to find them.
OP
curioustechy
Journeyman
dear all...i fed up searching hp and amd site but couldnt find anything gud 4 me... somebody could help me please... then how to find the raid driver suitable for me?
OP
curioustechy
Journeyman
can i expect any more help from here
OP
curioustechy
Journeyman
I'm giving up my hope 
...anyway thanx for everybody who gave new insights
...anyway thanx for everybody who gave new insights
I am sorry my friend, that anyone is not able to help you much. There's not a lot which can be done, if you are not able to find any drivers for your RAID configuration.
Maybe you can use Win 7, with XP mode on top of it (or by Virual Machine), for working on legacy softwares.
Maybe you can use Win 7, with XP mode on top of it (or by Virual Machine), for working on legacy softwares.
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curioustechy
Journeyman
After a wild and exhaustive search for RAID driver I abandoned the hope of installing XP on my laptop. Now I got a second hand computer _ LENOVO think centre M57 6081AA7
Its having an 80GB sata hdd. It was a single partition & loaded with xp when it arrived.
Now I want to install win 7 x64 ultimate, win XP professional x86 s.p1 & Ubuntu 10.10.
After booting from my win 7 DVD, I deleted the single partition and divided into 3 partitions (all primary) -35,20,20 GBs respectively. Starting from the beginning a 100 Mb space was taken out automatically (I don't know why this happened) . I then went on and installed win 7 on 35GB partition successfully. Then I booted from win XP CD and installed that in the second partition (the above two OS in ntfs) . now when I boot from my hard disc I'm directly taken to XP and I'm not given an option to select the OS. I then proceeded with installation of Ubuntu. I split the other 20 GB partition into two - 17GB & 3GB. I formatted 17GB with ext3 & the remaining as swap. I started installing Ubuntu in the ext3 formatted disk. Mid way it crashed and so I came out. Now if I boot from my hdd I can go to XP only.
Also please suggest whether I should start this in a new thread.
Its having an 80GB sata hdd. It was a single partition & loaded with xp when it arrived.
Now I want to install win 7 x64 ultimate, win XP professional x86 s.p1 & Ubuntu 10.10.
After booting from my win 7 DVD, I deleted the single partition and divided into 3 partitions (all primary) -35,20,20 GBs respectively. Starting from the beginning a 100 Mb space was taken out automatically (I don't know why this happened) . I then went on and installed win 7 on 35GB partition successfully. Then I booted from win XP CD and installed that in the second partition (the above two OS in ntfs) . now when I boot from my hard disc I'm directly taken to XP and I'm not given an option to select the OS. I then proceeded with installation of Ubuntu. I split the other 20 GB partition into two - 17GB & 3GB. I formatted 17GB with ext3 & the remaining as swap. I started installing Ubuntu in the ext3 formatted disk. Mid way it crashed and so I came out. Now if I boot from my hdd I can go to XP only.
Also please suggest whether I should start this in a new thread.
Wow.. it took you loooong to came to that conclusion. 
Well, the order of installation should have been XP, then Win 7 and then Ubuntu.
Since you installed XP after win7, XP have overwritten the bootloader of 7.
You have two options now. Use a tool like, Easy BCD to fix that, or simply, reinstall Win 7 again (since you have XP preinstalled).
New thread creation is not necessary, since you are still stuck with same problem, "3 OS in a computer"!
Well, the order of installation should have been XP, then Win 7 and then Ubuntu.
Since you installed XP after win7, XP have overwritten the bootloader of 7.
You have two options now. Use a tool like, Easy BCD to fix that, or simply, reinstall Win 7 again (since you have XP preinstalled).
New thread creation is not necessary, since you are still stuck with same problem, "3 OS in a computer"!
reniarahim1
Youngling
You could have downloaded the SATA driver and Slipstreamed the driver into the Windows Xp Installation Media using Nlite and Use the Slipstreamed CD for Installation. This will recogonize the SATA hard disk.
Faced the same issue while installing Xp on my friend's Dell inspiron machine and this method solved the issue.
Faced the same issue while installing Xp on my friend's Dell inspiron machine and this method solved the issue.
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curioustechy
Journeyman
I did do as u told.... i spoke with hp personnel and he sent me the sata driver and slipstreamed it using nlite....but it didnt work.... i doubt the hp guy had fooled me....
doomgiver
Warframe
STEP 1
download :
*dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/pmagic-4.5.iso < get parted magic
Using Parted Magic an Introduction < parted magic help
GParted partitioning software - Full tutorial < gparted help.
i assume you have a working dvd/cd writer and a blank disc, and i hope you can burn that file to the disc and use it to boot.
STEP 2
1. burn and boot from parted magic live disk
2. run "gparted"
3. make the following partitions :
DELETE ALL PARTITIONS (make the whole disk as one unallocated space)
/dev/xda1Primary - Windows 7 - NTFS (15-20 GB 7 installed here)
/dev/xda2Primary - XP - NTFS (5-10 GB XP intalled here)
/dev/xda3Extended (all the partitions below are a part of this extended partition)
/dev/xda4Logical - / - ext4 (5-10 GB, linux files here)
/dev/xda5Logical - /home - ext4 (as much as you want, keep your linux stuff, like packages, stuff, not really required, but it helps sometimes)
/dev/xda6Logical - swap-space - linux-swap (keep it twice as much as your RAM)
/dev/xda7Logical - shared - NTFS (as much as you want, it will be shared between all the OS's)
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/1381647-post13.html <-- understanding different types of partitions
things to note :
PRIMARY partitions have numbers 1-3.
EXTENDED can be 2-4.
LOGICAL numbers start from EXTENDED+1, and can go on and on (the most i've seen is 118, this guy had a lot of distros running)
STEP 3
1. boot from xp cd and choose install.
2. now, install XP on the 2nd partition (the XP) one. MAKE SURE ITS NOT THE 1ST ONE
STEP 4
1. boot from parted magic cd.
2. remove boot flag from XP partition (right click > flags)
3. go to gparted and HIDE the XP partition (dont delete, just hide) (rclick > hide, at least, thats how u hide, afaik. check the tutorial to make sure)
STEP 5
install windows 7 to FIRST PARTITION
STEP 6
1. boot to live disc of partition magic.
2. in gparted, unhide the XP partition
3. install linux to the extended partition.
select manually partition discs
in this part,
/dev/xda4a this will be / (or root)
/dev/xda5 /home
/dev/xda6 swap-space
now, when it asks for where to place bootloader (GRUB) tell it to install to MBR.
EDIT :
slipstreaming is a tedious process, i couldnt find the hdd drivers myself, and you have to know *exactly* what you are doing, meaning the hp guys were at their wit's end, so couldnt help lol
also, my method involves DELETING ALL DATA ON THE HDD. SO BACKUP ANY IMPORTANT STUFF ON THE HDD.
edit 2
take help/pointers for stuff from these threads :
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/open-source/147525-dual-boot-windows-7-ubuntu-10-10-a.html
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/software-q/139435-boot-problem.html
download :
*dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/pmagic-4.5.iso < get parted magic
Using Parted Magic an Introduction < parted magic help
GParted partitioning software - Full tutorial < gparted help.
i assume you have a working dvd/cd writer and a blank disc, and i hope you can burn that file to the disc and use it to boot.
STEP 2
1. burn and boot from parted magic live disk
2. run "gparted"
3. make the following partitions :
DELETE ALL PARTITIONS (make the whole disk as one unallocated space)
/dev/xda1Primary - Windows 7 - NTFS (15-20 GB 7 installed here)
/dev/xda2Primary - XP - NTFS (5-10 GB XP intalled here)
/dev/xda3Extended (all the partitions below are a part of this extended partition)
/dev/xda4Logical - / - ext4 (5-10 GB, linux files here)
/dev/xda5Logical - /home - ext4 (as much as you want, keep your linux stuff, like packages, stuff, not really required, but it helps sometimes)
/dev/xda6Logical - swap-space - linux-swap (keep it twice as much as your RAM)
/dev/xda7Logical - shared - NTFS (as much as you want, it will be shared between all the OS's)
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/1381647-post13.html <-- understanding different types of partitions
things to note :
- GPARTED wont save anyhting until you click apply or the tick sign. so this means that you can safely poke around a bit with the options. if you happen to do something bad, DONT PANIC, just reboot or choose undo.
- GPARTED notations of partitions are a bit different.
PRIMARY partitions have numbers 1-3.
EXTENDED can be 2-4.
LOGICAL numbers start from EXTENDED+1, and can go on and on (the most i've seen is 118, this guy had a lot of distros running)
STEP 3
1. boot from xp cd and choose install.
2. now, install XP on the 2nd partition (the XP) one. MAKE SURE ITS NOT THE 1ST ONE
STEP 4
1. boot from parted magic cd.
2. remove boot flag from XP partition (right click > flags)
3. go to gparted and HIDE the XP partition (dont delete, just hide) (rclick > hide, at least, thats how u hide, afaik. check the tutorial to make sure)
STEP 5
install windows 7 to FIRST PARTITION
STEP 6
1. boot to live disc of partition magic.
2. in gparted, unhide the XP partition
3. install linux to the extended partition.
select manually partition discs
in this part,
/dev/xda4a this will be / (or root)
/dev/xda5 /home
/dev/xda6 swap-space
now, when it asks for where to place bootloader (GRUB) tell it to install to MBR.
EDIT :
slipstreaming is a tedious process, i couldnt find the hdd drivers myself, and you have to know *exactly* what you are doing, meaning the hp guys were at their wit's end, so couldnt help
lolalso, my method involves DELETING ALL DATA ON THE HDD. SO BACKUP ANY IMPORTANT STUFF ON THE HDD.
edit 2
take help/pointers for stuff from these threads :
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/open-source/147525-dual-boot-windows-7-ubuntu-10-10-a.html
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/software-q/139435-boot-problem.html