Qosmio F30-140: cannot install Windows operating system-> no. HDD

I bought the Qosmio F30-140 and I can't install Windows XP from my original cd: / recovery cd works fine but it installs a bunch of stuff I didn't need if I want a clean install...

so when I run my winXP cd Setup program I get the error message: "Setup did not find any hard drives installed in your computer..."

Although I can run windows normally which is installed from the CD of restoration... I think it's something with the hard disk drivers.

How can I overcome this? Thanks in advance :)

Hello Sarunas

There s nothing wrong! Nothing with HARD drive or other hardware!
You have just installed the RAID driver
The Toshiba Recovery CD contains the RAID driver and so you can install it without any problem.
But the Windows CD contains no such driver and therefore the RAID driver must be installed at the beginning of the configuration of Windows installation procedure.

Windows will ask you 3 RAID driver. The RAID driver, you can find on the page of the Toshiba driver. Download it on the floppy drive and connect the external USB FDD drive.
From there, you will be able to install the RAID driver.

Good luck..

PS: Search in this forum of similar comments... you will find a large number of discussions on this topic...

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