T61p 6460-67U hard drive upgrade problem

hihi all,

my T61p came with a 100gb drive and i recently purchased a hitachi 7200 200gb drive.

i put the new drive into my laptop but during install of windows xp pro, it keeps saying it cannot detect any hard drive and quits the setup.

does anyone know why and how to fix this?... the new drive is working because it passed the hard drive diagnostic check. also i even created an active partition, formatted it in NTFS, and the win xp setup still says it cannot see any hard drives. the lenovo bios sees the hard drive, and i can use the drive when i put it into an external drive enclosure with usb connection... so i'm at a loss.

btw, i was a little peeved at lenovo's tech support... when i called them they basically said they won't help me because i didn't buy an overpriced lenovo "branded" hard drive from them. (the drive i have is the same exact brand as the original, Hitachi)

any help much appreciated.

cheers,
r

 

You need to go into BIOS and set your SATA from AHCI to Compatibility in order for the disc to detect the HDD. Check out my XP Clean Install Guide for more details. (see sig)

 

Thanks Arkit3kt!

i kind of realized the answer myself... basically win xp doesn't know how to communicate with my SATA drive... so what i ended up doing was downloading the SATA controller drivers from here:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-62909

(the instructions for the drivers also had your suggestion of setting to "Compatibility" in the SATA bios configuration)

anyhow, what i did was integrated this SATA driver into the win xp pro setup using nLite and burned a new setup disc.

everything works fine now.

(btw and off-topic, i was able to install Mac OS X 10.5.2 (Kalyway) on my laptop but the audio and network wi-fi didn't work)

thanks all and cheers!
r