FORMAT HELP ... AGAIN

[WeeMann]

I first went into BIOS and made the 1st boot device "CD-ROM" leaving
the second and third the same. Then I booted from the Windows XP CD. As
it entered setup and finished uploading the setup files it asks me to
continue, I do. Then a message pops up saying "Setup did not find any
hard drives installed in your computer" ?!?! What is that?

Just attempting things not know what bto do afterwards... I pressed F6
at the beggining of setup as it says at the bottom. It takes me to a
screen telling me to insert a certain Floppy Disk, which I didnt have
so therefore it said something around the lines of "Could not find
txtsetup.oem file" or something? Again I am stumpped and forced to
abort formatt and installation. Any ideas or information you could
give?

Please help me with my questions or tell me how I can solve this. It
would be highly appriciated.

WeeMann

 

[thedummyFoD]

I first went into BIOS and made the 1st boot device "CD-ROM" leaving
the second and third the same. Then I booted from the Windows XP CD. As
it entered setup and finished uploading the setup files it asks me to
continue, I do. Then a message pops up saying "Setup did not find any
hard drives installed in your computer" ?!?! What is that?

Just attempting things not know what bto do afterwards... I pressed F6
at the beggining of setup as it says at the bottom. It takes me to a
screen telling me to insert a certain Floppy Disk, which I didnt have
so therefore it said something around the lines of "Could not find
txtsetup.oem file" or something? Again I am stumpped and forced to
abort formatt and installation. Any ideas or information you could
give?

Please help me with my questions or tell me how I can solve this. It
would be highly appriciated.

WeeMann

 

[dividby0]

Does your BIOS detect your HDD??
Try the autodetection in BIOS.
if it does, then check your power cable, and the data bus to be faulty
or something.

and please do not press the F6 key as suggested during initialization
of setup.
It is for installing third party raid drivers.
Let the setup continue on its own when it displays to press F6.

 

[Brian A.]

Start from scratch.
Create a 98 DOS boot disk with CD support.
http://www.bootdisk.com/

Please read Read1st in the right pane for instructions on how to create the
boot disk from the downloaded file.



Then follow the instructions here to repartition/format:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/delete_nondos_partition.htm



Once finished with fdisk/format, boot with the XP CD to reinstall.


--

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[Andy]

Since you haven't provided any details about your hardware. I'm going
to assume the hard drive has a SATA interface, and you must therefore
load the XP driver for the motherboard SATA interface.
So, obtain the correct driver from the motherboard manufacturer
website, put it on a floppy, and load it via the F6 procedure.

 

[Ron Sommer]

What where the entries for the second and third boot items?
Was one of them the hard drive?