Help with AR11M

[fan97122769]

Hello all (my 1st post, so forgive my noobishnees).

Anyway, i am sick of all the crap that gets installed onto my laptop from the setup cd's. Just look at MSCONFIG and theres like 30+ processes running, what for?? All i wanna do is harness the full power of the laptop without all that other crap.

Anyway I want to install my XP-Pro cd. When I try run it from basic dos mode (Ie booting up from startup) it says no hard drive present?

Is it because its raid maybe.

Any help appreciated.

CaL

[philfree]

That must be it. I think when the setup CD is starting, it asks for loading raid drivers by pressing F6 or Fsomething (it appears on the line at the bottom of the setup screen).

[djrayon]

Take a look
http://www.club-vaio.com/clubvaio/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=37652&offset=0#179564

im having the same problem, but if you dont have a usb disc floppy drive then the same destiny awaits you like me did.
add drivers to your xp installation. use keywords like "clean install" & "clean install sata" when searching this forum (gives a lot of good info) and "adding sata drivers xp" when searching google ...

if u get pass my problem then please help me out 😃