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Old August 25th, 2008, 06:57 AM
charlie110 charlie110 is offline
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Cant install XP pro Sp2

Had vista home premium.

Formatted disk through Puppy Linux (NTFS)

When i restart the computer and put xp disk in it loads what it has to load and then i press enter to install windows xp but then it says:

Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer

Make sure any hard disk drivers are powered on and properly connected to your computer, and that any disk related hardware configuration is correct...

Setup cannot continue. To quit setup, press F3.


System info:
Laptop
ACER aspire 5710G
Dual core 3.5GHz
3Gb memory
160Gb HDD
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Old August 25th, 2008, 03:37 PM
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More than likely you have a sata drive & windows xp doesn't have sata drivers on the disk.. You can try going into bios & changing THE SATA OPERATION SETTING TO ATA.. If that doesn't work, check this out..
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...-installation/
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