Windows XP No hard disk

[grizzler]

Hey, Trying to install Xp on a vista machine. I put the disk in and it says there is no hard disk, reading around i have found that i need extra ATA drivers. I think i found these but it keeps asking for txtsetup.ome. Can someone help me please ?

 

[muckshifter]

Need more info ... but I'll tell you one thing, installing XP after Vista is asking for a whole heap of trouble.

 

[grizzler]

Well my plan was simple. Install vista. Parition the hard disk. Install Xp. Repair the bootloader and then i could have a dual boot machine. Just Xp hates my serial ATA drive in my lappy...

 

[muckshifter]

it may help if I knew what the lappie was ...

Great plan, tripped up at the first hurdle.

 

[grizzler]

i know Hence why i could do with any help!

 

[muckshifter]

i know Hence why i could do with any help!

Can't help, sorry, you still ain't told me what the Laptop is, not that that matters much, but it would tell me at least what is in the thing.

There can be numerous reasons why XP cannot "see" your SATA drive ...

Is your version of XP at least SP1, SP2 preferred ... the "original" XP had to use F6 to pre-install "additional" drivers, that is, if you have a floppy drive ... it may be possible to force this issue with a USB Thumb Drive with the drivers on, but not in a folder as they need to be in the Root of any Media that they are going to be installed from, the Windows XP installer was never designed to install from anything but the Root of a Floppy.

What does the BIOS "see" what drives you have ?

Oh, and I see no reason to install XP, providing the Laptop is capable of actually running Vista ... they don't 'arf cheat out there though ... only yesterday I had to "fix" a Sony laptop, that had less than 200Mb ram available, and that was running (20mins to boot) very slowly.

Sony ??? ...

 

[grizzler]

No idea just when i load the xp install it says cannont install because there is no hard drive

Sorry about that, its a philips-freevents xp59 http://support.thetechguys.com/layout.aspx?ID={4032f548-697d-48a0-9401-f3233773e917}&CatID={d0f177ca-4491-4663-af61-b06cea215e8d} Thats got a list of all the hardware and the hardrive is a hitachi hts541210h9sa00

 

[muckshifter]

What does the BIOS see ??


Is it really a Pink Laptop ... that may be the problem.

 

[grizzler]

Bios is all fine, and the vista install is fine.

Yes it is pink to. Not for my use, the other halfs!

 

[muckshifter]

I "see" no reason here why you cannot get XP to see the HD.



On the other hand, I'm quite happy with Vista and see no reason to install XP.

You may want to get a total of 2Gig of ram though.


Pink, the new Silver ... I like, and have, a yellow PC myself.


Sorry I could not be of more help, if you wanna drop off the Laptop at my address, I'll take look for you.