Repair problem on Netbook with SATA HDD
 

My Netbook (Toshiba NB100) with Windows XP Home started up this morning
with an error:

"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\Windows\system32\config\system

Boot from install CD and select R to repair"



My netbook has a SATA HDD so when I boot from the XP CD I have to supply
the SATA driver from an external floppy.

I did this and then got THIS error!

File iaStor.sys caused an unexpected error (43538) at the line 2113 in
d:\xpsprtm\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c

How do I now proceed?

Repair problem on Netbook with SATA HDD
 

In ,
Ken1943 wrote:
XP SP3 , not sure with sp2, has sata support built in.

What? Are you talking about retail versions of Windows XP? As there are
no retail versions of XP SP3 that I know of. And no retail versions of
XP had any SATA support built in AFAIK.

Now as for OEM versions, that is totally different. I believe those
generic OEM versions follows the retail versions as far as SATA support
goes. But branded OEM versions were completely a different thing. Some
SP2 did and probably most SP3 did support SATA out of the box.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP3

Repair problem on Netbook with SATA HDD
 

In ,
Ken1943 wrote:
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 19:18:01 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:

In ,
Ken1943 wrote:
XP SP3 , not sure with sp2, has sata support built in.

What? Are you talking about retail versions of Windows XP? As there
are no retail versions of XP SP3 that I know of. And no retail
versions of XP had any SATA support built in AFAIK.

Now as for OEM versions, that is totally different. I believe those
generic OEM versions follows the retail versions as far as SATA
support goes. But branded OEM versions were completely a different
thing. Some SP2 did and probably most SP3 did support SATA out of
the box.

I still have two sata drives with xp. XP Pro retail was slipstreamed
to sp3 with nlite. I added no drivers with nlite to sp3 and I didn't
have to install drivers for sata.

Sooooooo ??


KenW

Oh cool! ;-)

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP3

Repair problem on Netbook with SATA HDD
 

On 09/07/2012 07:18 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Ken1943 wrote:
XP SP3 , not sure with sp2, has sata support built in.

What? Are you talking about retail versions of Windows XP? As there are
no retail versions of XP SP3 that I know of. And no retail versions of
XP had any SATA support built in AFAIK.

Now as for OEM versions, that is totally different. I believe those
generic OEM versions follows the retail versions as far as SATA support
goes. But branded OEM versions were completely a different thing. Some
SP2 did and probably most SP3 did support SATA out of the box.



Oh boy here goes

any version of XP with sp3 has built in SATA drivers.
I'm a computer refurbisher and have done hundreds upon hundreds of
installs and never had a problem with getting SATA recognized.

I'd make an sp3 slipstreamed CD....

Repair problem on Netbook with SATA HDD
 

"philo" wrote in message
...
On 09/07/2012 07:18 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Ken1943 wrote:
XP SP3 , not sure with sp2, has sata support built in.

What? Are you talking about retail versions of Windows XP? As there
are
no retail versions of XP SP3 that I know of. And no retail versions
of
XP had any SATA support built in AFAIK.

Now as for OEM versions, that is totally different. I believe those
generic OEM versions follows the retail versions as far as SATA
support
goes. But branded OEM versions were completely a different thing.
Some
SP2 did and probably most SP3 did support SATA out of the box.



Oh boy here goes

any version of XP with sp3 has built in SATA drivers.
I'm a computer refurbisher and have done hundreds upon hundreds of
installs and never had a problem with getting SATA recognized.

I'd make an sp3 slipstreamed CD....

It has SATA support if your BIOS is set to IDE Mode, but I'm not aware
that a clean install has drivers if the BIOS is set to AHCI mode. Have
you clean-installed XP on a system with the SATA options in the BIOS set
to AHCI, without having to add drivers via F6?
--
Glen Ventura
MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
CompTIA A+

Repair problem on Netbook with SATA HDD
 

In ,
philo wrote:
On 09/07/2012 07:18 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Ken1943 wrote:
XP SP3 , not sure with sp2, has sata support built in.

What? Are you talking about retail versions of Windows XP? As there
are no retail versions of XP SP3 that I know of. And no retail
versions of XP had any SATA support built in AFAIK.

Now as for OEM versions, that is totally different. I believe those
generic OEM versions follows the retail versions as far as SATA
support goes. But branded OEM versions were completely a different
thing. Some SP2 did and probably most SP3 did support SATA out of
the box.

Oh boy here goes

any version of XP with sp3 has built in SATA drivers.
I'm a computer refurbisher and have done hundreds upon hundreds of
installs and never had a problem with getting SATA recognized.

I'd make an sp3 slipstreamed CD....

That is what KenW cleared up for me two days ago. I personally like to
see how a machine works first with SP2 myself. As I have noticed that my
SP3 machines scroll web pages jerkier and breaks OE6 compacting. As it
often crashes with file in use error when it gets to folders.dbx. The
temporary fix is to switch OE6 for offline, close OE and then reopen and
then compact. That seems to always work that way.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP3

Repair problem on Netbook with SATA HDD
 

In ,
glee wrote:
"philo" wrote in message
...
On 09/07/2012 07:18 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Ken1943 wrote:
XP SP3 , not sure with sp2, has sata support built in.

What? Are you talking about retail versions of Windows XP? As there
are no retail versions of XP SP3 that I know of. And no retail
versions of XP had any SATA support built in AFAIK.

Now as for OEM versions, that is totally different. I believe those
generic OEM versions follows the retail versions as far as SATA
support goes. But branded OEM versions were completely a different
thing. Some SP2 did and probably most SP3 did support SATA out of
the box.


Oh boy here goes

any version of XP with sp3 has built in SATA drivers.
I'm a computer refurbisher and have done hundreds upon hundreds of
installs and never had a problem with getting SATA recognized.

I'd make an sp3 slipstreamed CD....

It has SATA support if your BIOS is set to IDE Mode, but I'm not aware
that a clean install has drivers if the BIOS is set to AHCI mode. Have
you clean-installed XP on a system with the SATA options in the
BIOS set to AHCI, without having to add drivers via F6?

When the BIOS is set to IDE Mode, Windows uses the stock IDE drivers
that has been in Windows since 1990 or earlier. Unfortunately for me, my
12 SATA machines have no such BIOS setting. And five of them only have a
RAID setting as far as hard drives goes.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP3

Repair problem on Netbook with SATA HDD
 

From: "BillW50"
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 09:38:02 -0500
Subject: Repair problem on Netbook with SATA HDD

Glen wrote
It has SATA support if your BIOS is set to IDE Mode, but
I'm not aware that a clean install has drivers if the BIOS
is set to AHCI mode. Have you clean-installed XP on a
system with the SATA options in the BIOS set to AHCI,
without having to add drivers via F6?

Bill W wrote
When the BIOS is set to IDE Mode, Windows uses the
stock IDE drivers that has been in Windows since
1990 or earlier. Unfortunately for me, my 12 SATA
machines have no such BIOS setting. And five of
them only have a RAID setting as far as hard drives goes.

The BIOS in some systems refer to this option
under SATA settings as Normal/Combination mode.
As in a SATA port that emulates an IDE port to SW,
therefore "combined".

Repair problem on Netbook with SATA HDD
 

In message
,
Greegor writes:
From: "BillW50"
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 09:38:02 -0500
Subject: Repair problem on Netbook with SATA HDD

Glen wrote
It has SATA support if your BIOS is set to IDE Mode, but
I'm not aware that a clean install has drivers if the BIOS
is set to AHCI mode. Have you clean-installed XP on a
system with the SATA options in the BIOS set to AHCI,
without having to add drivers via F6?

Bill W wrote
When the BIOS is set to IDE Mode, Windows uses the
stock IDE drivers that has been in Windows since
1990 or earlier. Unfortunately for me, my 12 SATA
machines have no such BIOS setting. And five of
them only have a RAID setting as far as hard drives goes.

The BIOS in some systems refer to this option
under SATA settings as Normal/Combination mode.
As in a SATA port that emulates an IDE port to SW,
therefore "combined".

I don't get 'therefore "combined"'; if I saw such an option, I'd assume
it was talking about something to do with RAID.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

A clean, neat and orderly desk is a sign of a sick mind. (G6JPG's mind is
clearly extremely healthy ...)

Repair problem on Netbook with SATA HDD
 

Glen wrote
It has SATA support if your BIOS is set to IDE Mode, but
I'm not aware that a clean install has drivers if the BIOS
is set to AHCI mode. Have you clean-installed XP on a
system with the SATA options in the BIOS set to AHCI,
without having to add drivers via F6?

Bill W wrote
When the BIOS is set to IDE Mode, Windows uses the
stock IDE drivers that has been in Windows since
1990 or earlier. Unfortunately for me, my 12 SATA
machines have no such BIOS setting. And five of
them only have a RAID setting as far as hard drives goes.

Greegor wrote
The BIOS in some systems refer to this option
under SATA settings as Normal/Combination mode.
As in a SATA port that emulates an IDE port to SW,
therefore "combined".

JP Gilliver
I don't get 'therefore "combined"'; if I saw such
an option, I'd assume it was talking about
something to do with RAID.

RAID on a netbook?

Wouldn't an OEM be more inclined to have RAID
actually labeled as RAID, as a sales feature?

Out of all of the different OEM's, there are probably
several other ways to describe the mode in which
SATA ports present themselves to the OS as IDE.

Repair problem on Netbook with SATA HDD
 

In message
,
Greegor writes:
Glen wrote
[]
Bill W wrote
When the BIOS is set to IDE Mode, Windows uses the
stock IDE drivers that has been in Windows since
1990 or earlier. Unfortunately for me, my 12 SATA
machines have no such BIOS setting. And five of
them only have a RAID setting as far as hard drives goes.

Greegor wrote
The BIOS in some systems refer to this option
under SATA settings as Normal/Combination mode.
As in a SATA port that emulates an IDE port to SW,
therefore "combined".

JP Gilliver
I don't get 'therefore "combined"'; if I saw such
an option, I'd assume it was talking about
something to do with RAID.

RAID on a netbook?

By the time I came into the thread, the fact it was a netbook had got
lost - I agree unlikely!

Wouldn't an OEM be more inclined to have RAID
actually labeled as RAID, as a sales feature?

Not sure; depends on the market aimed at. Among newcomers, "combined"
might be more understandable than "RAID".

Out of all of the different OEM's, there are probably
several other ways to describe the mode in which
SATA ports present themselves to the OS as IDE.

Indeed. (I just couldn't really think _why_ "combined" should mean
"looks like IDE", but I'm sure someone can.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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