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Sam - Sep 26, 2009 at 09:25 AM
Bootlegger Posts 14 Registration date Friday September 25, 2009 Status Member Last seen September 27, 2009 - Sep 27, 2009 at 03:02 PM
Hello,

I have HP Pavillion Entertainment PC DV6700 & I formatted it completely
Now situation is I am unable to install Any OS,,Vista, Xp,WIn2000, Win98,,Win95 as it shows me
"Setup did not find any hard drive on your system"
Following option i performed

1] Boot from WIn98,,used FDISK & created new MS-DOS Partition
2] Format complete,,,,& try to Boot from XP & used F6 key to install third party SCSI,,,&
tried to update BIOS Hard drive with USB Floppy Drive

& result is Zero,,
Its Good for nothing for me

Please any one can help me about this

Hope for a favorable response

SAM
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Bootlegger Posts 14 Registration date Friday September 25, 2009 Status Member Last seen September 27, 2009 5
Sep 26, 2009 at 06:03 PM
Hi Sam,

When you formatted the drive (NTFS), did set it as primary and active?
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sam
Sep 27, 2009 at 03:08 AM
Hi

Yes I set as Primary & active,,,

I formatted with win98 in FDISK,,,,

Now i found SATA driver & i used it pressing F6 during xp installation & it works,,,
but when Windows Setup file start copying,,,it shows me,,,,Insert "Intel Matrix Storage Driver" drive in A:

so please i need this driver & I downloaded most of drivers from Intel & it is not working for this Laptop

Please suggest me as I am stuck

Thanks
Regards
Sam
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Bootlegger Posts 14 Registration date Friday September 25, 2009 Status Member Last seen September 27, 2009 5
Sep 27, 2009 at 03:02 PM
See if these links help.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/search.html?ws=text#t=Downloads&sort=%40docdatetime%20descending&layout=table&q=Intel%C2%AE%20Matrix%20Storage%20Manager

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005864/technologies.html
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