Please help me out....?

i am using windows vista business edition.i want to change my operating system to windows xp pro.i kept the xp set up disk n restarted my laptop.its showing "set up cannot find any hard disk drives in your computer make sure its properly inserted and on".


but in windows vista business i am using three drives.what should i do?
Please help me out....?
Hi, your HDD is set to SATA and you need to enable the IDE detection in your BIOS setting.


It's different in laptops,just look around in your BIOS and should be under advance section or any where related to your HDD.


If you can't find it, it means you don't have it and you need to download SATA driver for XP.however cos u were using XP b4 so the BIOS should have it.
Please help me out....?
The reason your pc doesn't perform a clean install using the Windows XP Pro disc is because the operating system belongs to another computer already if my understanding of your question is correct. What you're doing is some sort of copyright infringement and that's why Microsoft or Windows does not allow you to install the same Operating System into two computers. However, if you purchase a new Windows XP Pro Operating System (goodluck on this by the way because I heard Microsoft will stop selling the old operating system this month), it will allow you to perform the clean install.
Reply:you can update your system bios if ur system is old (1yr or more).


You should know that ur laptop comes with SATA HDD which became popular within last year or so. But the good old XP came in 2001. So it does not detect the SATA disks as hard disks.





What u can do is go to ur manufacturer's website and in support or download section and download the sata drivers files or some related ones. you also need an application called nLite which intigrates those files in xp cd (u will need to create a new one using the above appication). Then just do the usual way. If u want the application then mail me.

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