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Postby vikramhegde » Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:24 am

I tried installing XP following above instructions, but xp installation dose not recognise my hard drive. It gives an error and quits. Am I doin something wrong here?
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Postby Grav!ty » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:47 am

vikramhegde wrote:I tried installing XP following above instructions, but xp installation dose not recognise my hard drive. It gives an error and quits. Am I doin something wrong here?


Welcome to PROnetworks vikramhegde. What drive configuration do you have and in particular what drive type are you using? SATA or IDE or a combination of the two and what chipset is your HDD controller?

It sounds like you need to install SATA F6 floppy drivers but that's hard to tell from the limited info available
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Postby kd1966 » Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:06 pm

Hi and welcome to PROnetworks! I've moved your topic here to give you more "eyes on" and possibly a faster solution. Try Grav!ty's solution and enjoy the site!
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Postby NT50 » Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:22 pm

Is it Windows XP w/ SP2?
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Postby vikramhegde » Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:03 pm

Its a SATA drive with Vista on it already. I made a new partition for XP SP2.
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Postby NT50 » Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:08 am

You may need to find the sata drivers in order to load XP.
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Postby vikramhegde » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:53 am

Sata drivers are loadable while XP installation through a flopy. i do not have a drive in my laptop!
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Postby JabbaPapa » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:04 pm

You may need to purchase an external floppy drive -- also make sure that you have XP SP2, or the Setup program may be unable to see the floppy drive !
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