XP Install Wont find HD

[shadowknight86]

Long time reader first time poster =-)
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Recently did a full clean up and reformatted my laptops(A51-m) HD(Hatachi ata/ide 60gb) now when i try and reinstall Windows wont see any HD.

BIOS finds it fine but XP install CD wont =-(

I looked around and most ppl say its a sata driver needed... but with bios seeing it idk


Any Ideas?




Edit1:
Laptops running 2x 512 DDR2 Apacer ram, tried removing 1 at a time and swapping slots... to no avail =-(

 

[shadowknight86]

Error msg is:

<Unknown Disk>
There is no disk in drive.

Then 15 secs later it blue screens into a 0x0000008E error

 

[aford10]

You can check the controller in the BIOS to make sure it's on IDE.

 

[shadowknight86]

Only have

RAID/ATA Mode Select:

-Raid Mode
-Ata Mode
-Disabled

 

[aford10]

You want the ATA(IDE) mode.

 

[shadowknight86]

Still no luck, changes nothing... that I can tell =-(

 

[shadowknight86]

Still getting " <Unknown Disk>
There is no disk in drive. "

Is there any way to install onto the HD using it external through USB...? Like from my old dell desktop then the HD into laptop and use CD to do a repair... or is that not really poss?

 

[aford10]

The interface is different. You could try an external enclosure. You would need to change the boot order to boot off usb devices.