Re: Toshiba S100 Problem With RAID Driver

I to have had this problem and managed to resolve the issue. What you
need to do is create a slipstreamed version of XP and make it a
bootable disc that also has the SATA Drivers supplied by Toshiba from
their website.
Instructions are as follows:

How To: Slipstream your XP installation
Add RAID drivers and Service Pack 2 to your original Windows CD!
This will add SP2 and RAID or Serial ATA controller drivers to your CD
so you won�t need a floppy drive (or the F6 key) to
install Windows.
(Note: the instructions in this story will still work with SP1.)
Required
- Windows XP setup CD
- Internet connection
- CD burner
- ISO Buster (www.isobuster.com)
- Nero 5.5.9.0 or newer (get the non-6.0 versions from
www.oldversion.com)


Step 1: Collect the necessary files

Before getting started, we'll need to download the full, stand-alone
installation of Service Pack 2 (as opposed to performing a web-based
upgrade). Go to download.microsoft.com and look under the Windows XP
section or simply run Windows Update from Internet Explorer.
While you're at it, grab the latest drivers for your RAID or Serial
ATA controller. If you add them to your install CD, you won't need to
use an old-fashioned floppy drive to install Windows. For an add-in
RAID or SATA card, look for the drivers on the web site of your
controller chips manufacture. Some of the most popular controllers
are made by Promise, Intel, Adaptec, and HighPoint. If your
controller is integrated onto your motherboard, hit up your mobo
manufacturers web site.

You can roll your RAID drivers into your XP install disc by
slipstreaming!


Step 2: Update your setup files

Our next objective is to extract Service Pack 2 to a folder so we can
update our existing Windows setup files. Open the command prompt by
clicking Start, Run, and typing cmd.exe. Use the cd (change
directory) command to navigate to the folder where you just saved the
SP2 executable in the previous step. (The syntax for cd is cd , so if
you saved the SP2 executable to, say, C:\Downloads, you would type cd
C:\Downloads to go there.) Extract the SP2 files by typing xpSP2,
where xpSP2 is the name of the SP2 executable you downloaded. When
prompted for a destination to extract the files to, enter C:\xpSP2.

Once the files have been extracted, insert your Windows XP setup CD
into an optical drive and copy its entire contents to a different
folder on your hard drive. For the sake of simplicity, use
C:\xpsetupcd as the folder. Now, return to the command prompt and
type the following command: C:\xpSP2\i386\update\update
/s:C:\xpsetupcd. This will update your existing Windows setup files
with the new code contained in Service Pack 2. A message box will pop
up to notify you when the process is complete.
Service Pack 2's built-in updater makes it easy to patch your original
Windows setup files with Microsofts latest code.


Step 3: Add your RAID/SATA Drivers

We're now ready to add RAID/SATA controller drivers to our CD. Open
the folder to which you copied your Windows XP CD (C:\xpsetupcd) and
create a subfolder called $OEM$. Then, create a subfolder of $OEM$
called $1 and a subfolder of $1 called drivers. The resulting path
should be C:\xpsetupcd\$OEM$\$1\drivers. This is where Windows Setup
will look for drivers that aren't contained in its standard driver
library. For organizational purposes, make a subfolder within drivers
named for the type of driver it will contain for instance, create a
RAID folder for RAID drivers or an SATA folder for Serial ATA
drivers. You can use any name, as long as it has fewer than eight
characters.

With the aforementioned folder structure in place, copy the Windows XP
RAID/SATA drivers directly into the folder you created above (we used
C:\xpsetupcd\$OEM$\$1\drivers\RAID). If your drivers came in a
self-extracting executable rather than a zip file, you may be able to
extract its contents manually by opening it in a program like WinRAR.
(Alternately, you can run the self-extracting executable, then dig
around in your systems TEMP directory usually C:/documents and
settings/YourUsername/LocalSettings/Temp until you find the right
directory). Finally, locate the SYS file for your RAID/SATA
controller from among the files you just extracted; it should be
named after your specific controller (e.g. fasttx2k.sys for a Promise
FastTrak TX2 RAID controller). The drivers for different operating
systems may be split into distinct folders, so make sure you find the
SYS file that's intended for Windows XP. Once you find the SYS file,
copy it to the i386 folder of your Windows CD (C:\xpsetupcd\i386).

Adding RAID or Serial ATA drivers to your Windows CD will save you the
trouble of using a floppy disc to manually install them every time you
reformat.(This is where we solve the problem of over writing the
driver files from Floppy).


Step 4 Introduce Windows to your drivers

Now that we've added our RAID/SATA driver files to the mix, we need to
tell Windows Setup about the existence of these drivers and how to use
them. But unless you happen to have this information memorized and if
you do, this might be a good time to turn off your computer and spend
some time in the real world you'll need to look it up in your drivers
INF file. This file is usually found in the same place as the SYS
file you located in the previous step and will probably have the same
name, albeit with an INF extension. Open the INF file in Notepad and
copy the PCI identifier string, which is a series of characters
beginning with PCI\VEN for instance, PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376. There
may be other text on the same line as the identifier string; if this
is the case, start at the first occurrence of PCI\VEN and copy the
text up to but not including the last period (or the end of the line,
whichever comes first).

Next, open TXTSETUP.SIF (situated in C:\xpsetupcd\i386) and paste your
PCI identifier string under the [HardwareIdsDatabase] section of that
file. At the end of the string, add an equal-sign followed by the
driver name in quotes. In the case of our Promise RAID controller,
the resulting line is: PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_3376 = fasttx2k. Note: If
your drivers INF file contains multiple PCI identifier strings, copy
all of them into TXTSETUP.SIF.
Now scroll down to the [SourceDisksFiles] section of TXTSETUP.SIF and
add the following text:
driver_filename.sys = 1,,,,,,_x,4,1
where driver_filename.sys is the name of your RAID /SATA drivers SYS
file. Note that you should include the .sys here. Then, under the
[SCSI.Load] section, enter:
driver_filename = driver_filename.sys,4
Once again, driver_filename is the name of your drivers SYS file. Note
the lack of a .sys suffix on the left side of the equal-sign.
Finally, in the [SCSI] section of the file, add the following:
driver_filename = RAID/SATA Device Name
You can enter whatever you want for RAID/SATA Device Name, but we
recommend using a meaningful description (such as the name of your
RAID/SATA controller). Finally, save and close TXTSETUP.SIF.

Somewhere in the depths of your RAID/SATA controllers INF file lurks
the fabled PCI identifier string.


Step 5 - Create a customized setup routine

You're almost there. In this step, we'll make a file called WINNT.SIF
in the i386 folder of our Windows setup files (C:\xpsetupcd\i386).
This file can be used to create an unattended installation routine a
subject beyond the scope of this how-to but we'll simply use it to
point Windows to the drivers we've slipstreamed. Create WINNT.SIF and
enter the following:
[Data]
AutoPartition=0
MsDosInitiated=
UnattendedInstall="Yes"
[Unattended]
UnattendMode=ProvideDefault
OemPreinstall=Yes
OemSkipEula=Yes
NoWaitAfterTextMode=1
NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1
WaitForReboot=No
TargetPath=\WINDOWS
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
OemPnPDriversPath=
[GuiUnattended]
OEMSkipWelcome = 1
[UserData]
ProductKey=
FullName=
OrgName=
You'll need to customize the OemPnPDriversPath line by entering the
path to the INF file for your RAID/SATA driver (for instance if your
drivers are in C:\xpsetupcd\i386\$OEM$\$1\drivers\RAID use:
OemPnPDriversPath=drivers\RAID\FastTrack\WinXP).
There are a few other fields you may want to customize before you
close WINNT.SIF. Type your product key, name, and company name in the
ProductKey, FullName, and OrgName fields respectively to avoid having
to enter them during setup. And if you'd like to install Windows to a
folder other than C:\WINDOWS, edit the TargetPath field as needed.

WINNT.SIF is a powerful file that allows you to customize and automate
many parts of the Windows installation process.


Step 6 - Prepare your bootable CD and burn it

Our next task is to extract the boot image from our original Windows
XP disc so we can use it to make our slipstreamed CD bootable as
well. With your original XP setup CD inserted, launch ISO Buster and
select Bootable CD from the left pane. In the right pane, right-click
Microsoft Corporation.img and choose Extract Microsoft
Corporation.img. Extract this file to the folder where you copied
your XP setup files (C:\xpsetupcd).
Fire up Nero Burning ROM (or EZ CD Creator, or any other CD burning
app) and go to the New Compilation window (click Close Wizard if
Nero's wizard comes up). Select CD-ROM (Boot) from the left pane and
open the Boot tab. For Source of boot image data choose Image file
and use the Microsoft Corporation.img file you just extracted. Check
to enable expert settings, and set Kind of emulation to No emulation
and Number of loaded sectors to 4. (These instructions will vary if
you use another application, of course.)
Next, head over to the ISO tab and set File/Directory name lengt to
ISO Level 2. Ensure that Format is set to Mode 1 and Character Set to
ISO 9660, and make certain all four checkboxes on this tab are checked
(Joliet,Allow pathdepth of more than 8 directories,Allow more than 255
characters in path,and Do not add the ;1 ISO file version extension).
Finally, click the Label tab and set the Volume Label field to the
value used by your original Windows XP CD this is the name that
appears next to your CD-ROM drive in My Computer when your XP CD is
inserted.

At this point, we're almost ready to rock. Click the New button to
open the Nero File Browser, and then locate the folder where you
copied your Windows XP CD. Open the folder and add its entire
contents to your CD image. When you're all set, mash the Burn button
and bask in the glory of your shiny new slipstreamed Windows XP CD,
replete with RAID/SATA drivers and Service Pack 2!

This should now work.
It did for me.

Good luck
:D

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