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Fresh Install on Internal HDD

Discussion in 'Tech Support' started by tribalman, 8 Feb 2009.

  1. tribalman

    tribalman What's a Dremel?

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    I have a Compaq v5000 laptop.the only thing i have done to it is upgrade the ram to 1.25GB and a bigger HDD. I still have the 30 GB that shipped with the drive but i don't use it because it is XP home with a bunch of extra usless programs. I got sick of it so i got a 120 GB sata laptop drive. a while ago i wanted to put a clean install of XP Pro on the drive but the windows install can't find the drive. even with the stock drive, it doesn't find the drive. I finally just decided to put linux on the 120 and use it like that. while that was fine for doing school work and having a lightweight system around for doing most tasks it worked great.
    i want to install vista windows 7 on either of my laptop drives but they still don't recognize the hard drive if they are installed inside the case. i have a usb drive that is recognized by XP installer, but i don't want to use an operating system across usb. i have upgraded the bios, i have tried bios settings but windows installer won't see the drive. is there anything i can do? there isn't a boot or driver CD, all that is kept on the 2nd partition of the initial drive by compaq/HP. thank you for your help.
     
  2. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead It's big, and it's clever.

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    with XP, try having a drivers for your disk controller on a floppy and press F8 when prompted to and install a driver at install. Is the original small drive SATA as well? If so, WinXP may not see them at install unless you have a driver floppy ready.


    Can the BIOS see them?


    Vista shouldn't have that problem however, so if it's Vista you're installing, I'm baffled, especially if the BIOS can see the drives.
     
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  3. tribalman

    tribalman What's a Dremel?

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    yes, 2 of the 3 drives are SATA, the 30 GB that came with the computer and the 120 GB i bought later. the 3rd drive is IEDE and is a USB drive. i will try the floppy drive as soon as i can find a removable or USB floppy drive. thank you.
     

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