Jan 08 2008
HDD Not Detected on Format?
Today I came accross an interesting problem. Recently someone bought a laptop and wanted XP on it because she did not like Vista (who does). Well I booted to the XP Setup Disc to delete the partition and install XP however every time it came up with HDD not detected. A few quick searches and I determined that the issue was the XP Pro Setup disk did not contain SATA drivers for the HDD. Now you can place the drivers on a floppy but I couldn’t So what I did was make a new xp CD using Nlite and added the drivers manually. Worked perfectly. Also you will tend to see this issue on newer HDDs so be forewarned.
