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HP NOTEBOOK HARD DRIVE UNDETECTED

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by france_country2000

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I have a laptop which is i wanted to reinstall a win xp pro, but as i enter the windows xp setup there is a note states that the hard drive of my laptop is not detected. but as i try to enter a "fdisk", there it is a partition of my hard drive is detected. my laptop is a new one. what seems to be the problem with my laptop??? can somebody please help me.

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by david.wallis

more than likely has a sata harddisk which requires extra drivers when installing windows, otherwise you get that problem.

Are you trying to install from the CD that came with the laptop? Or was it seperate?

If it was seperate you will need to burn off a new cd of windows which contains the sata drivers needed. You can use NLITE to do this. contact your laptop manufacturer for the location of the drivers

hope this helps!

by jswentworth

If you have a floppy drive, or can get a USB floppy drive, you can load the drivers onto that, then when windows starts up the installer press F6 to load additional drivers and point it to the drivers on your disk. That's a lot easier than trying to slipstream the drivers into an XP install disc.

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