After I boot from the xp cd and after setup has finished loading all of the files, it says:
"Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.
Make sure any hard drive disks are powered on and properly connected to your computer…….(bla bla bla)….and then "Setup cannot continue"..and to quit.
This is for a Dell XPS M1530 laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium.
Does anyone know how I can fix this?
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1 Victoria // Jun 22, 2008
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread100189.html
2 DavidSr P // Jun 22, 2008
When you are going to Windows XP and away from Vista, you need to boot the XP disk, Find the one that removes all the formats on the drive and click on it, the have it reformat the hard drive for Windows XP. It sounds like it still has the Vista Format on the Hard Drive, They are not the same kind of formats.
You will also need the Windows XP drivers for your computer make and model, burned to a CD. Windows will always look for the drivers on a CD.
3 blue_tooth2k // Jun 22, 2008
first you need to get into the BIOS… find any SATA configuration… change from AHCI to compatibility setting…
then your Windows XP installation CD would find your hard disk… do the normal procedure for installing windows XP…
please follow the instruction below (eventhough it's specific for Lenovo Thinkpad, the steps are similar)…
hope that help
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