Could not find hard drive while installing XP

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I've got exactly the same problem at present and you DO NOT want to know the lengths I have gone to in order to reinstall with SATA drivers included.

Believe me!

You won't be able to simply 'download' a slipstreamed recovery disc, but you could always attempt to manufacture one yourself.

Try downloading NLITE and sourcing the SATA drivers for the motherboard/drive model you have in the DV6000.

You should also check against the serial number of the particular DV6000 you are looking at - HP are in all kinds of trouble after having lost a Class Action lawsuit in the US, regarding overheating problems with the DV series of laptops. :)

paying $16 is a bloody good deal. That way your friend has a CD that will be able to be used if it ever happens again or for recovery purposes. You are going to hit the friend for the $16 so that you are'nt out of pocket I hope. ;)

Windows XP does not support SATA hard drives and you need to turn off support for SATA drives in the BIOS. This will get XP to load onto your computer without sata drivers. But once you have it on there you can then find out what sata drivers you need and download it from the internet. Hope all works out for you.

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

Press the [b]F6 Key[/b] when the first blue screen appears with the Press F6 to install SCSI Driver listed on the bottom Left Hand side of the screen.

You then need to download the SATA Driver from HP and copy just the Driver to the Root of a Floppy. When prompted insert the Floppy and press Enter. This will install the Driver for the SATA Controller.

Of course as this HP doesn't have a Floppy natively but only as an Option you need a External USB Floppy which is far more expensive than the quoted $16.00 from HP. Of course if your friend did as HP suggested and burnt a Recovery Copy when she/he first powered up the computer you could use that.

The XP drivers for the HP6000 NB Series are located here but you really need to be sure that you quoted the correct model as there are many sub headings under the HP6000 Series of NB.

http://tinyurl.com/yzv62a

If you have the same version of XP that is loaded onto the Computer here which should be a Volume License Version of XP Pro you can make a Slipstreamed Install Disc with a product like nLite available here but you [b]Do Need The Exact Same Version[/b] of XP.

http://tinyurl.com/e2mo4

Or the Product Key on the COA will not work. If you chose to use the nLite application you will need to read it's directions here

http://tinyurl.com/hh3kb

If you do not use your friends Product Key to reload this computer you will in effect be supplying a Pirate Copy of XP and if M$ find out they are quite within their rights to issue a $250,000.00 Fine to your Friend and the person who installed the Pirate Software each. If this is the first time that they catch you out. Of course if you have been caught supplying Pirate Software Previously the fine is considerably more.

$16.00 for postage & Handling seems really cheap to me though.

Col

Thanks to all for your help. It wasn't so much the $16 thats the problem. I just want the damn thing out of my house. I disabled the sata drive in the bios and that does seem to be working, so far. I think it is just stupid that HP can't supply the recovery disk through a download.