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ScottLind   10-14-2009 at 08:30:37 PM

Hello TH.

I have an Asus F3Sc laptop with Vista installed. A few days ago I wanted to boot it up but, aften the Microsoft Corporation-loading bar I just got a bluescreen, I shows it chickly, and I can't see which kind of BSOD it is. Right when I turn on my laptop, the SMART says: Bad hard drive, back up and replace - and I've bought a new hard drive, but still, I cannot install a fresh Vista or XP. In the BIOS it regonizes both hard drives, but when I try to install a fresh copy of either Vista or XP, the installation says that it cannot find a hard drive. I tried everything with no luck..

I hope you can help me.

- Scott :)

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vibe   10-14-2009 at 08:34:10 PM

Yes, BSOD just after windows loading bar should start normaly points to harddrive. You may need to slipstream a driver for that harddrive into the windows install disk, that should let windows find the drive to install to.


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ScottLind   10-14-2009 at 08:36:05 PM

vibe wrote :

Yes, BSOD just after windows loading bar should start normaly points to harddrive. You may need to slipstream a driver for that harddrive into the windows install disk, that should let windows find the drive to install to.



Can you link to a tutorial?

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ScottLind   10-14-2009 at 08:50:00 PM

I have a XP SP2-disc. Isn't slipstreaming just adding SP2 to the first version of XP?

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vibe   10-14-2009 at 09:06:22 PM

Windows install disks have large numbers of drivers in them as well so they can pick up raid arrays and HDs etc - slipstreaming is the name given to the process of adding files into an existing image.

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ScottLind   10-14-2009 at 09:09:54 PM

But it seems weird to me, that it cannot find any of the hard drives. They are both Seagate hard drives, and have never had any problems with reinstalling Vista or XP.

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vibe   10-14-2009 at 09:17:00 PM

Then you may have a damaged mobo - are the drives visable in the BIOS?

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ScottLind   10-14-2009 at 10:18:06 PM

vibe wrote :

Then you may have a damaged mobo - are the drives visable in the BIOS?



Yes.

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