Category: Geeks r Us
I am having a problem booting this xp disk on this compaq c500 laptop. It has shita on it and when I boot to the xp setup it stell me it can't detect a hard drive. I was thinking to boot to the vista setup dvd and then delete the partitions from there but then I have the problem iofit still not seeing any hard drive which would render this laptop useless with no o/s. anyone have any ideas on how the xp setup cd can see the hard drive?
see the hardDrive? intresting. is it trying to load something from the drive, or is it trying to write to it
Its not doing either. All that it does is look at the partitions that are on the drive so thatthe end user can choos what partition or drive they wanna install xp on.
In regards to the op, I'm guessing that this lappy has a sata drive which xp won't find by default.
There are 2 ways you can do this:
1: Download the sata drivers from who ever made them (probably not compaq - tryintel) and put them on a floppy.
If needed use a usb floppy and boot to xp setup as normal but you have to press f6 to lode the driver - you'll need sited help.
2: Intergreat sata drivers into your xp:
1: Rip xp cd to hdd
2: driverpacks.net - download the mass storage driverpack and the driverpacks intergreater.
3: Extract the intergreater and place the mass storage.7z file into /driverpacks.
4: Run the intergreater and give it the path to your xp cd.
Leave all the other options and let it intergreat the drivers.
5: Reburn - everything should now work - so you can just press d enter l enter up up and enter to start the format on ntfs (not quick)
hth
ok first I have no floppy drive this is a laptop we're talking about here. second of all I whiped the o/s off the drive and now it has no o/s so I can't do anything on it. i knew I'd have this problem. Vista dvd can see it just fiine xp cd can't. thought it was the microsoft scam of vista and aparently it doesn't allow xp to see the drive, and well there is no o/s on the drive now so I'm screwed. forces me to stay with vista nd I refuse.
You obveously didn't read the hole of my post or are using nix so can't intergreat the sata drivers.
Really you must have a box with a burner that can run xp or even 2k suely?
Use one of your wonderful linux cd's to reformat the drive.
You no, am I the only one that has noticed that when you don't get the answer that you want to get even though the answers that have been given (Well mine anyway) will serve you fine that you just start getting annoyed with everyone?
Don't try and make yourself ub3r and pretend that using nix based stuff automaticly puts you above the bulc of computer users - this point is potically valid considering that your using ubuntu.
I am not going to and will never say that I no more than anyone else does about computers on this site because first its not true and secondly its not my nature. Accept the answers that you've been given because for most of the time, someone ill only post if they think they can help.
If you want I can go through driver intergration in more detail - I would have done it for you but i'm guessing that your using xp oem and I don't have any oem disks.
Ben.
ok both of you are wrong. Here is the solution. I don't know why the battle doosh brought linux into the picture but regardless. I had to go into bios, and disable native sata support thank you b3n for the sata tip, which didn't work but lead me to the answer. I then could install xp just fine, and didn't have to have an o;s already installed. Then installed the sata drivers on the new install, then go back into bios and then turn sata support back on.