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R1stu
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PostPosted: 20:19 - 12 Sep 2006    Post subject: Cant install windows Reply with quote
Installed Vista RC1 and now cant put XP back on

It says no hard drives detected so setup cant continue!

Yet Vista and pmagic and Arconos see the HDD. I have tried to delete and create partitions but nothing seems to work


what partition type is requires
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djr
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PostPosted: 21:30 - 12 Sep 2006    Post subject: Re: Cant install windows Reply with quote
R6stu wrote:
Installed Vista RC1 and now cant put XP back on

It says no hard drives detected so setup cant continue!

Yet Vista and pmagic and Arconos see the HDD. I have tried to delete and create partitions but nothing seems to work


what partition type is requires


Sounds like it's a serial ata/scsi disk drive and you've forgotten to give it a floppy disk with the drivers for your sata/scsi controller.
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R1stu
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PostPosted: 23:46 - 12 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
ITS A sata disc but never have in the past, only when I install Vista this happens.

Theres no floppy drive with the unit or disc with drivers.

Its a fujitsu 2060v laptop
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djr
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PostPosted: 23:59 - 12 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
R6stu wrote:
ITS A sata disc but never have in the past, only when I install Vista this happens.

Theres no floppy drive with the unit or disc with drivers.

Its a fujitsu 2060v laptop


never seen windows not see a hard drive except for when i didn't give it the sata drivers, it doesn't matter what the partition type is, both windows vista and xp at the moment use ntfs by default anyway so there wouldn't be a problem there, are you using the same windows xp as you always use for this laptop? the standard fujitsu cd's may have the sata drivers built in...

Try using partition magic to delete the partitions and don't bother creating partitions and see if windows can now detect it.
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PostPosted: 01:12 - 13 Sep 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've seen something similar with Vista. You will need to do a proper wipe of the drive.

although it does sound like a controller driver issue as mentioned
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