XP says "No Hard Drive Detected"

Hello, I have been all through this forum looking for an answer to a problem. And I have found similar problems, but no working solutions.
OK, here it is. I have a Gateway CX2620 Tablet Notebook. There was a problem with the original SATA HD and I had to scrap it. I bought a new OEM Sata HD and tried to load XP on it. I have downloaded drivers from Gateway and hooked up USB floppy. F6 for Sata drivers, drivers load. XP asks if I want repair, new install or exit setup. I select new install and XP tells me that "No Hard drive was detected". Looked in Bios settings, Bios must be shadowed becuase there is nothing to change except for time/date, boot order, pen alarm, autodim and supervisor password. I tried to slipstream the driver using nLite with no success. I can load Fedora or any other Linux OS. I can load Vista with no problems. I have used 3 different versions of XP thinking my copy might have been messed up, still nothing. I'm sure there is many things not mentioned here I have tried.
Any help or suggestions you guys/girls can give me is much appreceated.

 

is the hard drive set to master? thats pretty odd that only vista will load and not XP. could be a microsoft thing to not support newer hdd??

 

The Sata HD is set for Master. The HD is a Western Digital WD1200BEVS.
4 Pins with no shunt.

 

HI,

so did you ever find a work-around for your problem??

coz im having the same problem.. kinda.

my laptop have vista and i want to install xp on it!. but the problem is that i cannot find the text mode drivers for the motherboard AHCI controller, or find a BIOS update that allows me to change the AHCI mode

please let me know if you have anything that would help me.

xcorat

HP dv6375
Core 2 Duo T7200
2GB, GeForce GO 7400
160GB 5400rpm HDD

 

I had the same problem loading XP myself.

I went and downloaded the driver from the Intel, for use w/an external USB floppy drive. Put the driver on the floppy and started loading Windows XP, where at the beginning you have to hit the F6 key in order to tell it that you will be loading external drivers. When it got to that point it needed the driver, it read it off the floppy w/no problems. It saw the hard drive and allowed it to be formated. Once the format was completed, it again asked for the driver again, but it couldn't see the floppy drive this time. I tried this two or three time w/o success. I then went and borrowed another USB floppy drive from someone, a different brand, and tried that. This time it worked. I don't know why, but some brands of USB floppy drives apparently work, while others don't.

The brand that didn't want to work was made by Iomega, and the one that did work was a Lacia. On the bottom of it, it says Pocket USB FDD 706018 MYFLOPPY3.

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well,

finally, i got it working. with pretty much all the drivers...!!!!

you have to disable the onboard SATa support from BIOS. But the problem was dat the BIOS didnt have that feature. But surprisingly, after a BIOS update, Here it is!!, So guess that would help somebody out there...

gud luk
-xcorat

 

xcorat, ur AWESOME, ive been stuck with windows vista/linux for 1 year! i hate vista, and i have problems with linux, i was looking for a way to get it to work, and i bumped into here, and, i signed up just to say thanks to you i have c757 compaq, anyway, thanks xcorat, you made my day+20000 ;D

 

Thanx for your thanks...!!
Its nice seeing somebody out there 've actually been helped..

 

You can make a Costumized XP CD and you can throw there drivers for sata and you wont be needing a FDD