I recently bought a Sony Vaio and it's being quite stubborn. I want to reformat/repartition to remove Vista and install XP. When I boot into Windows Setup, I get an error message that says:
"Setup could not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer and that any disk related hardware configuration is correct. This may involve running a manufacturers supplied diagnostic or setup program. Setup cannot continue. To quit setup press F3."
At first I thought maybe Vista controlled the partition from boot, or it was partitioned with something beyond NTFS, this was not the case. I tried resizing the partition to see if extra, unpartitioned space would be recognized. It was not.
How do I get Windows Setup to see the hard drive?
"Setup could not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer and that any disk related hardware configuration is correct. This may involve running a manufacturers supplied diagnostic or setup program. Setup cannot continue. To quit setup press F3."
At first I thought maybe Vista controlled the partition from boot, or it was partitioned with something beyond NTFS, this was not the case. I tried resizing the partition to see if extra, unpartitioned space would be recognized. It was not.
How do I get Windows Setup to see the hard drive?