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**Sangeetha** · 24-Feb-2007, 12:15 AM

Question
Ok. I give up. I've got a gateway MX6919 Retail Notebook that was shipped with XP MCE. I have a retail off-the-shelf full version of XP Pro and I'm trying to load it. The notebook has a SATA hard disk, so I:

1. located the SATA drivers (tried both Intel and Gateway) hooked up my USB NEC floppy and pressed F6 during CD setup boot.
2. It found and read the floppy and I selected the ICH7MDH driver.
3. It found the hard disk, I partitioned and formatted it (spanky clean now).
4. It continued to load and then stops to ask as follows:

Insert the disk labeled:

INTEL MATRIX STORAGE MANAGER

into drive A:

press ENTER when ready

I can press ENTER all day and there is no floppy disk access. I've tried creating a bootable copy of Xp Pro using ISO Buster and putting the drivers on the root directory of the CD in an $oem$/$1 directory or $oem$/$1/sata directory and during setup it seems to ignore that the drivers are there and does not find the hard disk.

Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up.

24-Feb-2007, 12:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
Sangeetha Fixed Error! Posts: 139 Location: Chennai Join Date: Feb 2007 Rep Power: 2 IM:	Xp Setup Fails To Find Intel Matrix Storage Manager Question Ok. I give up. I've got a gateway MX6919 Retail Notebook that was shipped with XP MCE. I have a retail off-the-shelf full version of XP Pro and I'm trying to load it. The notebook has a SATA hard disk, so I: 1. located the SATA drivers (tried both Intel and Gateway) hooked up my USB NEC floppy and pressed F6 during CD setup boot. 2. It found and read the floppy and I selected the ICH7MDH driver. 3. It found the hard disk, I partitioned and formatted it (spanky clean now). 4. It continued to load and then stops to ask as follows: Insert the disk labeled: INTEL MATRIX STORAGE MANAGER into drive A: press ENTER when ready I can press ENTER all day and there is no floppy disk access. I've tried creating a bootable copy of Xp Pro using ISO Buster and putting the drivers on the root directory of the CD in an $oem$/$1 directory or $oem$/$1/sata directory and during setup it seems to ignore that the drivers are there and does not find the hard disk. Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up.