No hard drive fund error

dramacide

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Mar 14, 2013
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I was installing xp on HP dv9720us laptop which originally came with Vista. Xp asked if i wanted to delete the hard drive before install and i did like i always do when i am installing Win 7. So it started to install XP and the computer shut down in the middle of the install. Now i get hard drive not found when i try to install again. I have tried switching the SATA in BIOS but this laptop does not offer that option. Can anyone help me out or point me in the right direction. THANKS!!!