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CendrillonDL   08-03-2008 at 11:25:23 PM

Laptop: HP Pavillion dv8320ca

I want to reinstall windows xp on my laptop but i always get this error "Setup did not find any hard disk drives".

I have no floppy drive so i have slipstream with nLite my sata driver into a new windows xp disk but when i press F6 to load specific drivers and then S i get that error: ''Setup could not find a floppy drive on your machine to load OEM drivers from floppy disk''.... but i dont want to extract the driver from a floppy drive(i dont have one) but from the cd i have slipstream

Someone help me plz i just want to install my sata driver for installing windows xp home

P.S. I have burn my new cd with this topic
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...-installation/

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charithrac   08-04-2008 at 03:27:58 AM
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One thing you need to know is that by using nLite there is no point inserting into a SP1 disk. You need to use a SP2 disk, and it will work. I had same problem and used both SP1 and SP2 on my laptop and SP2 worked and SP1 didn't, so give that try.

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4ryan6   08-04-2008 at 05:26:16 AM
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Get an external USB Floppy MSFT Compatable saves a lot of headaches!

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