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When I try to reformat, this always happens:
"Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on this computer.
Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on correctly blah blah blah"
Do I have to do something in BIOS to fix this? Thanks.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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It's most likely have to do with the way your hard drive is setup.
And yes it's has something to do with the bios.
Btw is it a brand name machine?
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| kls85 wrote: | It's most likely have to do with the way your hard drive is setup.
And yes it's has something to do with the bios.
Btw is it a brand name machine? |
No, it's was put together by my brother.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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are you trying to downgrade from vista to xp?
anyway, you can simply slipstream your hdd drivers into a disc and burn it, then boot off that. this happened for me downgrading from vista to xp (not my computer), and was an easy fix.
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| fullyawesome wrote: | are you trying to downgrade from vista to xp?
anyway, you can simply slipstream your hdd drivers into a disc and burn it, then boot off that. this happened for me downgrading from vista to xp (not my computer), and was an easy fix. |
Um, no. I have XP, just trying to reformat since I have this weird virus that I can't fix. 
If you can fix this though, then I won't need to reformat.
http://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?t=324447
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i'm not sure what virus that is, but you should be able to fix your problem by slip-streaming drivers to the xp disc, unless you want to play with your BIOS.
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| fullyawesome wrote: | | i'm not sure what virus that is, but you should be able to fix your problem by slip-streaming drivers to the xp disc, unless you want to play with your BIOS. |
Eh, I rather not because I don't really know what to look at in BIOS, can you show me how to slip-stream?
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It's either set to RAID or ACHI and you will need those driver diskettes.
The other way is to disable it in the bios or change it back to standard SATA.
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use nlite to slip-stream. it's easy to use, just click a button to add drivers and keep pressing next. make sure you have your original xp disc to make the disc with.
as kls mentioned, you're going to need the drivers for ACHI, or whatever your hdd requires.
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How can he slipstream if he has no idea what drivers to slipstream?
There are tons of hdd drivers.
Just go into the bios, look at the SATA settings and change it!
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| kls85 wrote: | It's either set to RAID or ACHI and you will need those driver diskettes.
The other way is to disable it in the bios or change it back to standard SATA. |
Oh sh-
I've seen something about RAID I think. IDK where, but I've seen it like something failed to load or something. RAID driver I think.
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| kls85 wrote: | How can he slipstream if he has no idea what drivers to slipstream?
There are tons of hdd drivers.
Just go into the bios, look at the SATA settings and change it! |
you can extract drivers from your current windows installation. 
and not everyone wants to mess with their BIOS. if you want to sound so smart, be more specific and tell him exactly what to change and to what.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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Is this hard drive installed on the same SATA connector as your CD drive?
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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i got the same problem with u too topic-starter
and i need help too  becuz i cant use slip-screen becuz its black screen right after the XP logo load
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Is this hard drive installed on the same SATA connector as your CD drive? |
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