New installation of XP

[Guest]

Because of a virus, I formated my harddrive using a windows 98 boot disk. I
have a Dell 9100 with a 160GB Seagate SATA drive. I boot from the CD and it
starts the Windows setup. Setup loads files and then indicates that it is
starting Windows. I then get the question to press enter to install XP or R
to repair or F3 to quit. If I select Enter or R I get the message "Setup did
not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.
I do see the hard drive in the BIOS setup or if I boot from the floppy.
How do I correct this problem?

 

[Michael Stevens]

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Because of a virus, I formated my harddrive using a windows 98 boot
disk. I have a Dell 9100 with a 160GB Seagate SATA drive. I boot from
the CD and it starts the Windows setup. Setup loads files and then
indicates that it is starting Windows. I then get the question to
press enter to install XP or R to repair or F3 to quit. If I select
Enter or R I get the message "Setup did not find any hard disk drives
installed in your computer.
I do see the hard drive in the BIOS setup or if I boot from the
floppy.
How do I correct this problem?

Did you load the SATA driver?
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[Shenan Stanley]

Because of a virus, I formated my harddrive using a windows 98 boot
disk. I have a Dell 9100 with a 160GB Seagate SATA drive. I boot
from the CD and it starts the Windows setup. Setup loads files and
then indicates that it is starting Windows. I then get the question
to press enter to install XP or R to repair or F3 to quit. If I
select Enter or R I get the message "Setup did not find any hard
disk drives installed in your computer.
I do see the hard drive in the BIOS setup or if I boot from the
floppy.

How do I correct this problem?

You should use the driver for your SATA controller - at the point where it
asks you to "Press F6 to load third party drivers" - if you have a floppy
disk with those drivers made up (and can use it) - do so. Otherwise you
will have to ..

- Make said diskette..
- Have a floppy disk drive..
- Integrate said drivers into your WIndows XP CD..

 

[Guest]

I did not load the SATA driver. Wewnt to the Seagate web site and they say
the driver for this drive is on the XP CD.

 

[Guest]

I did not load the SATA driver. On the Seagate website, it says that XP CD
will load the drivers for this drive.

 

[Guest]

I found a driver on the Dell web site and used the F6 when installing.
Thanks

 

[Guest]

I found a driver on the Dell web site and loaded with the F6 option.
Thanks

 

[Michael Stevens]

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I found a driver on the Dell web site and used the F6 when installing.
Thanks

Great, glad you worked it out and thanks for the feedback.

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[Guest]

I am having the same problem, but I do not have a floppy drive. Is there any
way I can around this or do I need to get one?

Thanks for the help

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I am having the same problem, but I do not have a floppy drive. Is
there any way I can around this or do I need to get one?

You can find a way to integrate the driver into your CD and burn an
installation CD with it already integrated.

 

[Guest]

I need a little more help.... I went out and got a floppy drive and I am now
trying to load XP Home again. I found the driver, but i am having a problem
locating a TXTSETUP.OEM file. Is this something you create? If so, is there
a draft copy of one I could use to write mine? Or would it be easier to
create another CD with this driver in it? If so where does it go?

P.S. I have a Dell 8400 Dimension, RAID0 Array drives and are currently
formatted as NTFS and this is a re-install.

 

[Eric Michael Patterson]

Because of a virus, I formated my harddrive using a windows 98 boot disk.
I
have a Dell 9100 with a 160GB Seagate SATA drive. I boot from the CD and
it
starts the Windows setup. Setup loads files and then indicates that it is
starting Windows. I then get the question to press enter to install XP or
R
to repair or F3 to quit. If I select Enter or R I get the message "Setup
did
not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.
I do see the hard drive in the BIOS setup or if I boot from the floppy.
How do I correct this problem?

From Eric/ you have to check and see if your bios settings is correct
because that may cause your hard disks to not be detected in the setup and
or maybe you need to check you conductor cables to make sure that you hard
disk is connected to the computer.

 

[Guest]

I got all my drivers off the Eell web site. You need to see in your BIOS
setup which type of drive it will install. If you have chosen RAID in the
BIOS then you will should try the RAID driver. I had to work through
different settings and drivers until I found the combination that worked.

 

[Guest]

Can you tell me how to integrate the driver into the XP cd i.e. where should
it be located?