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| Thread ID: 83032 | 2007-09-17 00:40:00 | setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer - hpdv600 | ivo10 (12015) | Press F1 |
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| 591771 | 2007-09-17 00:40:00 | I am using an HP pavillion dv6000. i think my harddisk crashed so i went out and bought a new one. when installng windows xp in my laptop i get the error "setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer". i searched in google and saw that i need to turn off the sata in the setpu configuration. now my questions are: 1. is that enough for me to be able to install windows xp? 2. how can i turn sata back on after i reinstall windows (since it says there, enable sata to maximize the use of your harddisk) 3. can i still use my old harddisk? i need to retrieve some files from there. |
ivo10 (12015) | ||
| 591772 | 2007-09-17 01:15:00 | You'll need the sata drivers (for this laptop from the HP site) on floppy, and press F6 during the install. Or see if there's a Native SATA option in the BIOS, turn it off, while you install XP, turn it back on later. Might be a bit tricky connecting the old SATA, unless you've got a desktop that uses SATA, and you connect it to that. Or if you've got the restore cd/dvd use that. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 591773 | 2007-09-17 01:35:00 | i think my harddisk crashed so i went out and bought a new one 3. can i still use my old harddisk? i need to retrieve some files from there. You think??!! Perhaps you should have come here first with a desciption of the symptoms. Software crashes. Hard drives get faults. We don't know if you can still use it as you haven't told us what ahppened. In addition to SATA drivers, you will also need all the rest: chipset, LAN, modem, WIFI, graphics, sound etc etc for this machine. Hope you got all those ready first. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 591774 | 2007-09-17 02:52:00 | you mean i need the drivers for those parts? for the 1st harddisk, lets try to troubleshoot that later. i think i need help more on installing the OS for the sata harddisk. i need the steps..i saw a wbsite which says, i need to turn sata off in setup and then install xp then after i have installed it, repair OS and then use the sata driver. my other problem is that, when i went to hp site..they have ALOT of drivers for sata. i am not sure which one there. search.hp.com |
ivo10 (12015) | ||
| 591775 | 2007-09-17 03:04:00 | Did u check the BIOS to see if the Native SATA option was / is there?? If it is, then disable it, then it wont ask for the drivers and SHOULD find the hdd. So, you can install XP or whatever. WHAT have you got?? How are what are you going to use, to reinstall XP? The restore CD/DVD? A separate XP install CD? I would say where that site says turn SATA off in setup, it means in the BIOS, NOT in the XP install/setup screen. If the SATA drivers are needed, the drivers DON'T get installed AFTER XP has been installed. The SATA drivers HAVE to be installed during the install, thats why you have to press F6 during the install. Otherwise that message you posted will appear. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 591776 | 2007-09-17 03:05:00 | Turning SATA OFF isn't going to help much if the drive is SATA. Don't search HP's site for SATA. of course that will give you a million of results. you will need to find your latpop model and go from there... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 591777 | 2007-09-17 03:07:00 | Turning SATA OFF isn't going to help much if the drive is SATA. The point of turning it off, is so this message wont come up. At least it'll let u install whatever, without asking for the SATA drivers. And it'll find the hdd. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 591778 | 2007-09-17 03:54:00 | If the drive is SATA, and you disable the SATA controller - won't you be unable to use the HDD, no matter if you have drivers or not? If the drive is IDE it shouldn't matter, as windows should ignore the SATA it can't use, and just use IDE instead. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 591779 | 2007-09-17 04:11:00 | If the drive is SATA, and you disable the SATA controller - won't you be unable to use the HDD, no matter if you have drivers or not? If the drive is IDE it shouldn't matter, as windows should ignore the SATA it can't use, and just use IDE instead. Umm no dont think so, disabling it will make it emulate an IDE hdd I think. Well, from what Ive seen/read on a few sites. So it'll be easier to reinstall whatever, without having to install the SATA drivers, during the install. And once the OS has been installed, just turn it back on. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 591780 | 2007-09-17 04:30:00 | Umm no dont think so, disabling it will make it emulate an IDE hdd I think . Nope . And all this is pointless if he has nothing wrong with the original drive . If he tells us what the original problem was we might save him a lot of hassle . |
pctek (84) | ||
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