You might want to read the Tosh manual, or onsite FAQ's as to any particular
bios settings required with regard the disk controlers, when installing
Vista or any other o/s

"Magnet" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:37dacd8e661339c1ce33f22a75aec3ea@nntp-gateway.com...[color=blue]
>
> Hi Guys..I seek your help.
> I have downloaded all the new Vista related drivers avaiable from
> Toshiba to support the new install of Vista Business on my old Portege
> M400, which came preloaded with XP Tablet version and kept them ready on
> a CD.
> I have also upgraded the ACPI BIOS version to the latest available
> 3.80.
> I insert the first CD of Vista Business and do a boot. ( I also have a
> n upgrade Vista Business CD but I want to do a clean install). I go past
> initial steps and choose Install. I am confronted with an error message
> " No drives were found. Click load driver to provide a mass storage
> device for installation"
> Seems like Vista is not able to see the onboard IDE Hard Disk and it's
> a driver issue.
> I hit the 'Rescan' button available on the Install windows and another
> message pops up: " No Device drivers were found. Make sure the
> installation media contains the correct drivers and then Click OK!!"
> On the currently loaded XP: The Device Manager shows the currently
> loaded IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers as: " Intel (R) 82801G (ICH7 Family)
> Ultra ATA Storage Controllers and Primary IDE Channel.
> Disk Drives shown are: Toshiba RAID LD0 SCSI Disk Device
> Pls advise, as to which new drivers from the available downloads of
> Vista drivers for my ML 400 Model PPM40E, should I choose here so that
> my Vista install recognises the available hard disk?
>
>
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> Magnet[/color]