Cant Install XP "No Disk Drives Found Error"

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suhayl

Adept
Hi Guys

Bought a new lappy but having problems installing Windows XP

Says it cant find an disk drives
Need Help

TIA

Suhayl
 
Let me guess - the laptop has a SATA hdd? That would cause the problem... you need to see in the BIOS whether you can have it emulated as an IDE drive, else you need to supply the SATA drivers during the installation process (you can slipstream them in using nlite).

Good luck.
 
KingKrool is right. Its a sata hdd, without drivers slipstreamed with nlite or something or the F6 option it won't install. Don't install it with emulate as ide in bios option, changing it back after install will pose problems.
 
for quick solution.. There is an option to disable native SATA support in BIOS..Disable it and bingo XP works..YOu can update your drivers later...i have tried this on my friend's lappy..It has worked..
 
Ok guys thanks for the inputs

finally got it working
installed vista found out the sata controller
downloaded the floppy version mounted it using winimage

put the drivers on the windows cd using nlite

and bingo it works
 
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