How to install WinXP on a Freedos brand new laptop, need help badly.

I have no idea on how to install my winXP on my brand new Freedos MSI340 Laptop (No OS installed) can anyone help me. i have my genuine cd here. And i don't want to expend money anymore on technicians, i have my drivers here but i have no idea what to do first.


My first attempt failed. I sucessfully ran the winXP installation wizard but at the middle of the installation it said it can't detect my Hard Disk. What should i do so it can detect my hard disk?

 

Is the disc bootable, and does the BIOS detect the HDD..??

 

yes, the hard disk is a SATA

 

Does the BIOS show that the hdd is being detected alongwith all its parameters, and if the disc is bootable....boot through it..!!

 

i'm already in the WinXP installation wizard but at the middle of the installation, this is what the installation said "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer"

 

Did you format the HDD to NTFS before beginning the installation or not..??

 

Could you clarify some things?

1. What do you mean by middle of the installation? During the file copy procedure or before?
2. Do you have an option in BIOS to set up the HDD from sata to compatible?

 

If your BIOS has the option to switch from AHCI to IDE, select IDE and you'll have no problems. This is the easiest way, hope you have that option.

 

in the BIOS see if there is an option for: "Drive 0: SATA-0" drive is set to "ON"

Go to "SATA Operation":
Your system probably came set to "RAID Autodetect" - THIS SETTING CAUSES YOUR SYSTEM TO GO INTO AN IDE LOOP AND DOESN'T ALLOW IT TO FIND YOUR FACTORY INSTALLED SATA DRIVE.

CHANGE THE SATA OPERATION SETTING TO "COMBINATION/AHCI" (if that is available)

Reboot - make sure that the boot sequence is set to CD rom before HD and make sure that the reinstall CD is in the drive. Setup will load, hit enter to reinstall XP. Your HD should now be detected and you should see the licensing agreement.

 

I'm confuse, i'm really sorry, this is what the BIOS looks like

in the MAIN

Primary IDE MASTER [Hard Disk]
Secondary IDE MASTER [ATAPI CD ROM]

in the BOOT

BOOT Settins configuration
Boot device priority
-1st boot device CD/DVD
-2nd boot device SATA M-WDC
-3rd boot device Network

 

are those the only options in the bios..??
check in advanced options..

 

Wait guys i see the options here. i'm on my laptop right now. thanks for helping. kindly wait pls.

 

yes thanks wait' im going to insert my xp right now, i changed AHCI to IDE

 

wow the members in this forum is so great, thank you very much it worked i save 50 dollars equivalent to 2,000 phillipine pesos.

THANKSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

 

TY ANGAD1608 and ATTHEGATES

 

Good for you..and you're welcome

 

HEllo Please can you HElp me too on how to install a winxp in a freedos version and my hard disk cant be detected even in a bios setting i cant Find the auto detect harddisk
help me

 

Option 1: Go into BIOS, change the SATA mode to compadibility.
Option 2: Use nlite to slipstream the XP SATA drivers.