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1lThu Mar-09-06 01:41 AM
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"no harddrive dectects on winxp pro clean install"


          

I just bought myself a new computer and I want to clean install it with winxp pro. I boot it with winxp pro and it went into it's usual copy file, then when the options come up to press enter to install winxp pro, it said that it does not detect any harddrive. I'm not sure why it would said that since I can boot it up with its
currently run winxp home. i wonder if it has anything to do with the pentium D.
Thank you for any response.
1l
System Specs:
dimension 9150 (dell DXP051)
pentium D 2.80GH
512MB RAM
160G HD
winxp home (currently running)

  

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TtechThu Mar-09-06 01:54 AM
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#1. "RE: no harddrive dectects on winxp pro clean install"
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It probably has something to do with a needed driver for SATA and/or RAID. Did you get any driver CDs and possibly a diskette with this machine, or is it one that Dell has quit shipping that stuff with?

Behind every good computer... is a jumble of wires 'n stuff.

  

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1lFri Mar-10-06 01:36 AM
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#2. "RE: no harddrive dectects on winxp pro clean install"
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Thank you for responding. There wasn't any driver disk that came along, but I found a folder on the C drive that has the driver. I saw that there is an Sata driver, so I went into device manager (i didn't see any question mark), i went under disk drive and update the driver. However, it said something like wizard cannot find a better match for the hardware than the software you currently have installed.
Am I doing something incorrect?

  

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TtechFri Mar-10-06 02:01 AM
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#3. "RE: no harddrive dectects on winxp pro clean install"
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Take a look at this.

Behind every good computer... is a jumble of wires 'n stuff.

  

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