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    Win XP setup program says there is no hard drive installed

    Discussion in 'HP' started by bilsch, Jan 4, 2009.

  1. bilsch

    bilsch Notebook Enthusiast

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    This laptop is HP dv2000t with a 120 GB SATA drive. It was setup to dual boot Ubuntu LINUX and Win Vista. I want to change it so that the only OS is WinXP and the drive will have all space in a single NTFS partition. I booted up with a utilty CD containing Win98 DOS boot files (IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, etc.) and also containing a partition manager program. I deleted all existing partitions and created a NTFS partition containing the entire 120 GB space. Then I booted with a Win XP installation CD to start installing Win XP - but the Win XP setup program says there is no hard drive installed. That leaves me dead in the water. Note: my utility CD (Win98 DOS) accesses the HD just fine. Does anybody know why the Win XP setup program thinks there is no HD installed?
    TIA. Bill S.
     
    bilsch, Jan 4, 2009
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    elijahRW Notebook Deity

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    This is because windows xp sp1 and sp2 do not recognize the sata interface as it came out after xp.
    You have 2 options. The easy way or the hardway.
    The easy way is to go into the bios and disable sata native support so xp will see the drive as IDE.
    The hard way is to get the sata drivers and load them during XP driver loading process.

    If you use sata you'll get 15% faster transfer speeds than IDE.

    Here's a link for NBR's Reinstallation Guide for the HP DV2000T
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=59471
     
    elijahRW, Jan 4, 2009
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    bilsch Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks. I disabled Native SATA and I am back in the saddle.
     
    bilsch, Jan 4, 2009
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    elijahRW Notebook Deity

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    LOL you dirty devil took the easy route :D
    Glad to hear it ;)
     
    elijahRW, Jan 4, 2009
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