[Solved] Toshiba A200-27Z Laptop ... Set up did not find any hard drives installed.

[Ray1000]

Thank you for that Ken,

Ray

 

[KenB]

No problem Ray - let us know how you get on

 

[Ray1000]

A quick recap ...

I was given a Toshiba Satellite A200-27Z laptop with no screen or top cover but the spec was too good to abandon it.


With an unknown admin password I reformatted the drive … then found Vista OS wasn’t readily available.


When I tried XP Pro and XP Home it said "Set up did not find any HDD installed”


It turned out SATA and XP are not compatible.


I eventually found a downloadable Vista OS system on the Internet in order to use the original license number.


After separately downloading SP2 and 116 updates the machine is working perfectly.


I have a number of questions about Vista and VGA cables … for which I’ll start a new thread.


Thank you for your help


Ray

 

[KenB]

the machine is working perfectly.

That is good to hear Ray

I will mark this as "Solved".