windows xp can'nt detect hardrive

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Hi,
my system's down, so i reinstall windows xp, but the setup can show sreen
that no hardisk detected.
Hardisk in bios ok
view hardisk in partition magic is ok
view in dos is ok
so I don't know why
Just heard about that no hardisk detect sp1 install to the one with sp2
installed???

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Hi,
I've re-partition the hdd.
boot from winxp setup CD, but when running setup, get massage "windows did
not detect hardisk ........ press F3 to exit"

Minh

"Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B59163BE-81A5-4A64-932E-6D79894F4685@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> Have you used Partition Magic to partition the Hdd?
> If yes, have you created the 2 rescue disks when you installed PM?
> If yes, use them to recover the OS.
> If no, boot into BIOS and change the CD-rom to be the first boot device
> then
> save and exit BIOS setup. Boot from the XP CD, delete all partitions and
> perform a clean installation of XP.
> Warning: all data files would be lost.
>
> Peter
>
>
> "MTT" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> my system's down, so i reinstall windows xp, but the setup can show sreen
>> that no hardisk detected.
>> Hardisk in bios ok
>> view hardisk in partition magic is ok
>> view in dos is ok
>> so I don't know why
>> Just heard about that no hardisk detect sp1 install to the one with sp2
>> installed???
>>
>>
>>