When Installing Windows XP Can’t Find Hard Drive

Today I had to do a reinstall of Windows XP Professional on a computer. When it would get to the point where I had to hit enter to install XP it would give me a message that it couldn’t find a hard drive to install it on.

I ran the unilities to check to see if the hard drive was ok, which all passed as being ok. I then tried it again with the same thing happening again. I did a Google search and found this article:Install XP: Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer

My bios setting weren’t exactly the same but when I changed it to ata instead of what it was setting at all was great. What did we do before Google?

Tagged with: Bios Setting • Google • Google Search • Hard Disk • Hard Drive • Hard Drives • Installing Windows • Reinstall Windows • Reinstall Xp • Windows Professional • Windows Xp • Xp Professional

Filed under: Windows

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