Hey I just formated and made a partition using Partition Magic 8.01. After it was done i inserted the Windows XP it booted and then i pressed ENTER to continue and it says: "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer" And then asks to reboot! What can i do to RE-install windows???? thx in advance
That is our dear old WinXP! Your HDD is probably SATA, and requires SATA drivers. The fix: - Get an eternal USB floppy drive and a floppy. - You need an other computer to find, download, and extract (if zipped) the SATA drivers. - Plug your external floppy drive into your laptop. - When Windows XP goes "Press F6 to install SATA or RAID driver...." (or something like this) [you have about 1-2 second]... press F6. - Tell windows setup to install the SATA drivers and you are set to continue the setup. If you have 2 GB of RAM, a Vista compatible video card that won't struggle and peek at 100% to draw the interface, and a good CPU, get Vista.
