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xp repair consol can't find HDD

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by Bruce, 2008/05/27.

  1. 2008/05/27
    Bruce

    Bruce Inactive Thread Starter

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    My other computer just crashed and I can't it boot so I decided to use my XP disc to try and repair the problem. When I hit "R" to repair or "enter" to go to set up I get error message: "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on this computer." I went into bios & the drive is recognized. It's a Western Digital SATA 74gb. WD740GD. I know it is functioning since Windows was "trying" to boot, but, when the Windows start up screen begins I see a brief blue screen with an error message and it starts the boot process over again.
     
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  2. 2008/05/28
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Bruce - Welcome to the Board :)

    Your problem lies in the fact that you have a SATA drive and XP does not generally have any SATA controller drivers included. SATA postdates the intro of XP.

    You will need to make a SATA driver floppy from the motherboard CD - method generally outlined in the manual or download from the mobo manufacturer's website.

    Boot from your XP install CD and press F6 when prompted ....
    see here ....

    http://www.windowsxphome.windowsreinstall.com/installxpcdrepair/indexfullpage.htm

    http://www.windowsxphome.windowsreinstall.com/nohdd/indexfullpage.htm
     
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