It's highly unlikely that your suggestion will work, just having Vista on PC
will not prevent XP setup from seeing the drive. The problem is likely do be
driver related.
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>>I am using a sony VGN-FZ140E vaio laptop with vista preloaded.When i tried
>>to
>> install windows xp, the bootable cd didnot recognise the hard disks
>> installed.
>> Is there a way out to make the bootable cd of windows xp, recognise my
>> hard
>> disk and continue with the installation
>>
>> regards
>> mano
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> use WindowsMe Boot CD, boot to dos prompt, execute fdisk and delete all
> partitions ME finds (displays some weird junk instead of partition names)
> after that XP recognizes the harddisk
>
> greetings
> Thomas
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