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Hard disk Not Found F3 to Quit

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Dinu - Jan 24, 2010 at 10:58 PM
 lordnick - Oct 17, 2010 at 12:09 AM
Hello,
I have an hp laptop which i formatted. When installing the win xp service pack 2 it gives
a message that i check the hard drive, it cant see the harddrive or the hard drive is not powered, press f3
to exit
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Jan 25, 2010 at 03:29 AM
Hi there,

You need to disable sata/native mode in bios,follow the instructions given on link below from kioskea Faq:

https://ccm.net/faq/2370-downgrade-from-windows-vista-to-xp-hdd-s-ata-not-recognized

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lordnick
Oct 17, 2010 at 12:09 AM
why? what the problem f3 install o/s ..what is problem hdd - or connector
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