Windows Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed.....

[Guest]

Good Afternoon,

I just purchased a "LG S1 Pro Express Dual" with a German installation of
Windows XP Media Center, and I am trying to install a fresh installation of
Windows XP Professional (English version).
The Windows Setup is giving me the error "...setup did not find any hard
disk drives installed on your computer..."
I searched for this error on the Internet and I found out that I should
install the Intel SATA Controller drivers from the F6 menu of the Windows XP
Setup.
I searched and dowloaded what I think are the correct drivers from the
following location
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scr...&OSFullName=Windows* XP Professional&lang=eng

After downloading the drivers I re-tried to install Windows XP, by pressing
F6 to install the drivers (using my External Floppy Drive). The drivers got
installed correctly, but I get the same error again when the installation of
Windows XP begins.

Does anyone know what I should try next?
OR
Did anyone have the same error in the past and managed to fix it?

Thanks!

 

[chriske911]

Good Afternoon,

I just purchased a "LG S1 Pro Express Dual" with a German installation of
Windows XP Media Center, and I am trying to install a fresh installation
of Windows XP Professional (English version).
The Windows Setup is giving me the error "...setup did not find any hard
disk drives installed on your computer..."
I searched for this error on the Internet and I found out that I should
install the Intel SATA Controller drivers from the F6 menu of the Windows
XP Setup.
I searched and dowloaded what I think are the correct drivers from the
following location:
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scr...&OSFullName=Windows* XP Professional&lang=eng

After downloading the drivers I re-tried to install Windows XP, by
pressing F6 to install the drivers (using my External Floppy Drive). The
drivers got installed correctly, but I get the same error again when the
installation of Windows XP begins.

Does anyone know what I should try next?
OR
Did anyone have the same error in the past and managed to fix it?

Thanks!

even despite the fact that is showing in the first part of the winxp setup
routine an external floppy drive on USB is not recognized or mounted when
the winXP setup continues

therefor the drivers cannot be loaded and the setup will fail
I have tried this several times on several pc's and it never worked

I still can't figure out why this functionality was not included when winxp
was still in beta but that's the way it is

all you can do is hook up an internal floppy drive, maybe borrow one from a
friend or so?

you are in luck when you can set the sata controller compatibility mode from
within the BIOS, that way winxp sees the sata drive as a 'normal' drive

or you could add the sata drivers to the install media
look here on how to: <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314479>

grtz

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your response!

I re-checked the drivers that I had saved on my External Floppy Drive, and
found that they were incorrect. So, I placed the correct drivers on the drive
and went through the F6 routine again..... this time it worked. (partially)

Then it asked me to insert the Intel Matrix Storage Manager drivers in drive
A:
As you said, the drive was not recognised now.

What other options do I have apart from borrowing an Internal Floppy drive?
Would slipstreaming the drivers into the Windows XP CD work?
If so, do you know how to do this?

 

[chriske911]

Thanks for your response!

I re-checked the drivers that I had saved on my External Floppy Drive, and
found that they were incorrect. So, I placed the correct drivers on the
drive and went through the F6 routine again..... this time it worked.
(partially)

Then it asked me to insert the Intel Matrix Storage Manager drivers in
drive A:
As you said, the drive was not recognised now.

What other options do I have apart from borrowing an Internal Floppy
drive? Would slipstreaming the drivers into the Windows XP CD work?
If so, do you know how to do this?

have you read the entire post?
the answers you need are at the bottom of my previous reply

grtz

 

[Guest]

Ok thanks, I slipstreamed the drivers into the Windows XP Installation and
everything worked fine now. Thanks for the help!

 

[chriske911]

Ok thanks, I slipstreamed the drivers into the Windows XP Installation and
everything worked fine now. Thanks for the help!

glad you got it working
you know you could do this with all the drivers for your PC?
that way there is no more installing drivers manually
everything working OTB (out of the box) ;-)

grtz

 

[evilzzz]

I had a similar problem..

Our RIS server has been operating beautifully. However, on a new bit of
kit we recently got in (an IBM X60s laptop) the Windows text-based
setup would report that it could not find any hard disks. Suspecting
that it was something to do with the fact that this machine was the
first to adopt the serial ATA controller standard, I went into BIOS on
the machine, and found a setting to change - I changed the mode of the
Disk controller to "compatible". This got around the problem and
Windows installed and detected the disk just fine.

Maybe (hopefully) there is a similar setting in most BIOSes that will
allow switching the mode on the disk controller.

rgds,

 

[Guest]

and if you don't have internal Floppy as a gigabyte is, does it run with the
memory card in front ?

 

[John John]

No, it wont. If the motherboard has a floppy controller you can
temporarily attach a floppy disk drive to it. You can borrow a floppy
drive or buy one, they only cost about $10. You can also try a USB
floppy but it's a hit and miss thing with USB floppies, see here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916196

John