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i am a new user to this forum and i hope that you can help.

my saltellite L305-S5919 had so much virus that i had to reformat the hd. I lost the recovery cd and so i reformated the hd. booted from a flash drive, fdisked the hd, formated the hd as a bootable hd. while in dos mode i was able to write to and copy from hd. but when booting from hd massage says that there are no bootable media available. hd is a wd1600bevs. WD caldera dr dos can not detect the drive even though the bios correctly detects it.

installed brand new wd2500bevs. still caldera can not detect hd but bios correctly detects it. hoping to install WXP. please help. thanks

[#2]

Satellite L305-S5919 

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caldera can not detect hd but bios correctly detects it.

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It's because Caldera does not know about Serial ATA drives.

   How to install Windows XP or Windows 2000 on Toshiba computers that use a Serial ATA hard drive cont...

Install XP this way.

   Integration of Intels SATA AHCI and RAID drivers using nLite

When you are ready for Windows XP drivers, come back here.

[#3]

Go into Bios Setup and change the SATA controller to Compatability Mode instead of AHCI Mode (that setting shuld be under the ADVANCED tab).  That should take care of the problem.

You'll need to leave it in compatability mode to install XP as XP doesn't ahve native SATA support.  Once you've installed XP and installed all of the drivers you should be able to switch it back to AHCI mode for optimum performance.  Otherwise you'll need to integrate the SATA drivers into your XP disk as per the instructions in this post which I prefer.