Why is this happening and what can I do to circumvent the problem?
Hard Disk not found in Lenovo and HP laptops with XP Pro OEM disk.
Started by
RjBass
, May 23 2008 08:28 AM
#1
Posted 23 May 2008 - 08:28 AM
Why is this happening and what can I do to circumvent the problem?
#2
Posted 23 May 2008 - 01:32 PM
Since it's a newer laptop, it probably has a SATA harddrive, and when installing XP, you sometimes have to install drivers for SATA drives during the initial setup. You will see on the screen while all the drivers are being loaded (it's the first screen you see after you hit the 'any' key to boot from the CD) that you need to press F6 to install 3rd party drivers. Do so.
You can download the SATA drivers from the manufacturer's (Lenovo's) website and burn them onto a CD and you will just insert that when prompted after you hit F6.
You can download the SATA drivers from the manufacturer's (Lenovo's) website and burn them onto a CD and you will just insert that when prompted after you hit F6.
Edited by Fenor, 23 May 2008 - 01:34 PM.
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