Cannot Install Windows XP

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Zac Owen

I started out with windows 2000, a long time ago. I
wanted to upgrade to windows XP, and when i tried to (new
installation) it said It couldn't find any hard drives
connected to the machine. I sent the CPU to a man named
bill at my office. I have no idea how he fixed it, but it
came back to me with win XP on it. So I know this is
possible. I recently wanted to reformat my computer. I
did so, and when i tried to reinstall XP the same error
from long ago came up. Cannot find Hard drives. I then
downloaded a copy of MaxBlast on this(my other) computer
and created new partitions, two FAT32 partitions and
formatted them, because i thought maybe the NTFS was the
problem(even though they were NTFS and bill seemed to have
done it with them being so) and it still doesn't work. I
have a completely clean machine one main partition of 15
Gig, and a second partition of 25 gig, both of FAT32. At
this point i have no idea what to do, and i can't call
Bill until monday. Please help me out!
 
you might try the boot disks MS has available. Make sure
you download the right version. I have a post up near
yours...unable to install....but I'm lost too... :(
 
it's a MAXTOR 6L040J2 hard drive
an ABIT BD-711 motherboard
and a HPT370/372 UDMA/ATA RAID CONTROLLER
(i don't know if that's what you wanted but thats the
first controller thing i saw on bootup)
 
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