XP setup will not detect hard drive when installing.
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Hello, I have an Acer Extensa 4620z, the hdd went out on it, i replaced it and tried installing xp on it cuz i dont have the vista
recovery disks but I get a "setup did not find any hard disks drives installed in your computer" message. I also tried windows 7 as well but I get a "no os found" message. My understanding is that this laptop was designed only for vista and not xp, so I'm thinking I need storage drivers for it. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
recovery disks but I get a "setup did not find any hard disks drives installed in your computer" message. I also tried windows 7 as well but I get a "no os found" message. My understanding is that this laptop was designed only for vista and not xp, so I'm thinking I need storage drivers for it. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
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The hdd is new and it is sata, In bios it doesnt give me an option to enable/disable sata, been doin some searching and it seems the mobo/bios does not work with xp by default without doin some sort of slipstream process thru nlite. I tried installing 7 but that didnt work either, I boot from cd and with 7 all I get is "no os found" and with xp, setup didnt find any hdd installed. Thx for the help.
carry out a slipping is not that much hard. Also you must try to get some other win xp cds and try install . it may work.
If you need the steps for slipping in detail, follow the helpful link given below. (before that download nlite software)
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/resolving-setup-...
If you need the steps for slipping in detail, follow the helpful link given below. (before that download nlite software)
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/resolving-setup-...
georgioray said:
Hello, I have an Acer Extensa 4620z, the hdd went out on it, i replaced it and tried installing xp on it cuz i dont have the vistarecovery disks but I get a "setup did not find any hard disks drives installed in your computer" message. I also tried windows 7 as well but I get a "no os found" message. My understanding is that this laptop was designed only for vista and not xp, so I'm thinking I need storage drivers for it. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
I know this is a couple of years late but I've just come across the same thing.
In the BIOS set the SATA type to IDE (not ACHI) - Hope this can help someone else.
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