WinXP Setup can't "find" hard drive in system

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Chris

I have posted the problem on this newsgroup twice and
neither of them got through! Anyway, I'm trying to
install Windows XP on a new system along with some of the
old stuff. When I get to the XP Setup and either go to
installing the OS or repairing the hard drive that has
it, it tells me that there's no hard drive installed,
even though I have one already hooked up. However, I
successfully installed it three times on my old system
from changing hard drives and don't see why it won't
install on my new system. Please help!
 
Is the hard drive configured correctly? Master and slave or cable select
whichever applies? Is the HD connected to onboard standard IDE controller
(not Promise or HighPoint)? Can the BIOS see the drive?
 
I don't know what if it is configured correctly. The
BIOS does detect the hard drive's presence in the
system. Since there's only one hard drive, it is set up
as the Master drive. I set it up the same way that it
would set up in my old system. I don't get the problem
with WinXP not detecting it at all!
 
I forgot to mention that the hard drive that's on my new
system used to be on my old system while running
Win98SE. Though, I did reformat it to NTFS for it to
operate on WinXP while still on the old system.
 
What is the relevance of it beng connected to standard ide rather than
promise - I'm having real trouble too and I think this may have sonmehting
to do with it now you mention it - mine *is* connected to promise I think...

chris
 
Got you... cheers!

Sadly, that wasn't the cause of the problems, but that's another thing ruled
out!

chris
 
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