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    Hard drive not found

    Discussion in 'HP' started by clip, Dec 20, 2006.

  1. clip

    clip Notebook Consultant

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    I was trying to recover the XP boot after removing Fedora Core. However, when I put the XP CD in and restart, it said no hard drive found. The same report was generated when I put the HP recovery DVD set.
    Oddly enough that I still can boot up Windows, and only then can I have access to the hard drive.
    What is going on with my laptop, please?
     
    clip, Dec 20, 2006
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    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You need to go into BIOS and disable the HDD's SATA mode in order for the XP CDs to work.
     
    Greg, Dec 20, 2006
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