No harddisk detected

India
January 8, 2008 4:54am CST
My laptop came pre-installed with windows vista. But many of the programs I install wont work in vista. So I tried to install windows xp. When I boot from windows xp setup disk, it detects no harddisk. I gives a message "No mass storage device detected". I asked my friend, she said we need sata drivers, but I dont have a floppy disk drive in my laptop. Kindly help me out to install windows xp in my laptop.
2 responses
Damir Sovic
@dsovic (8)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
8 Jan 08
I had a similar situation. Solved via BIOS. Just uncheck the SATA option and XP will install.
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sania19
@sania19 (21)
• India
8 Jan 08
I dont understand what you mean.
Taskr36
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
8 Jan 08
It sounds like you used a Windows XP disk that didn't have SATA drivers for your computer included. You may need to get the SATA drivers from your motherboard/laptop manufacturer. I can help you if you give me the brand and model number for your laptop.