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Need Help With SATA driver!!!

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16 years 7 months ago #25889 by urangeloflove
I'm currently working on a friend's laptop computer - a Chinese TCL computer, to be precise, and it needs a SATA driver to enable the computer read the storage device. With out this SATA driver, I can't install any operating system. The TCL company website I cannot find, what can I do?

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16 years 7 months ago #25892 by Smurf

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16 years 7 months ago #25893 by S0lo
If you give up finding the driver (like I did once). Then there is a way around this which is to disable the AHCI option in your BIOS so your SATA will work as a normal IDE were the OS setup can see it. (at least temporarily). Check here:

www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/23/window...-drive-on-ahci-mode/

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16 years 7 months ago #26024 by ikon
nice trick solo ;)
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16 years 7 months ago #26032 by S0lo

nice trick solo ;)


Ya :), but problem is it probably won't give us the performance we expect from SATA. I still have that laptop which I did it for and I'm too lazy to find a driver for it.

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16 years 3 weeks ago #28332 by durk21
Replied by durk21 on topic OR...
Or you could just go to your motherboard manufacturers website and download it. Also you can go to your hard drive manufacturers website they typically have generic drivers there as well.
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