I am aware of the AHCI/SATA problem. Unfortunately for me, the laptop I'm working with has Phoenix BIOS, which doesn't allow me to alter any advanced BIOS options, including disabling AHCI. So I'm stuck without the ability to install XP on my new hard drive. If anyone has any suggestions or answers, it'd be much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Hi. Found this thread after having BIG trouble trying raw installation XP on a HP/Compaq laptop (nx9420). Same symptom. After loading all drivers, the installation sw said it could not find any hd. After googling a while I thought it had to be the SATA / AHCI issue. Also have this very basic BIOS setup with very few setup possibilities. After a couple of days trying Nlite and drivers an god knows what I got a fluke whim just to test switching "SATA native mode" OFF ! Heureka ! it worked. Dont know if this is solution for genuine AHCI - issues, but it might be the solution for some of You also who found this thread. // Peter
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where is this SATA native mode option??? I have the same issue..... XP SP3 bootable not recognizing my Dell Vista Laptop HDD. I want to format VISTA drive and install XP instead thru bootable DVD....but not happening :(
i have got a compaq pressario v 3777tu the problem is that it is with vista and no option to disable sata in bios and I tried with black xp 35 ultimate .someone please help me yaar I need to install xp on this system.
i have got a compaq pressario v 3777tu the problem is that it is with vista and no option to disable sata in bios and I tried with black xp 35 ultimate .someone please help me yaar I need to install xp on this system.
i have a similar issue, I have vista pre installed on my laptop, and I have the xp instalation disk, but when I try and install xp it wont recognise my harddrive, if you have worked out how to solve this problem, please email me on douglas_2176@live.com.au
You guys are frickin geniuses!. I have a Fujitsu that caught a bug. I don't have a Fujitsu boot disk and I have spent a month on and off trying to make a Boot disk to recover. I get all the way through it, even observing the whole mystical Slipstreaming dialog to find my laptop won't recognize the HDD. It is looking for the floppy, of which I don't have one of those with a SATA drive...I look on this website and shazam, I am now running CHKDSK. For anyone who has a Fujitsu N-series Lifebook, in the BIOS setup is a setting that enables AHCI. Under that is a sub setting. Leave the top setting enabled but the sub setting disabled. Also leave the IDE setting enabled... There is no "SATA" reference but that is what it is refering to. As in "Advance Harddrive Controller..." I can't believe I am finally at 54% on CHKDSK. Thanks much!
dear same problem:
i ran through this problem, and I have tried every possible solution, even with fdisk,formatting, third party during setup,drivers, etc etc etc for hell windows
iam a doctor, and this is brain insult
very big advice--------------------------hell to windows
i have changed to linux in very easy way
now my laptop had ubuntu 9.04 and mandriva 2009 powerpack and many other partitions of my work
believe or not ,
swear god I did nothing , no drivers, no problems ,nothing atall
my wireless,my display, audio, video,every thing is perfect
it is not advertisement , I have no time for that shut
it is what happened with me
I'm trying to install xp on and MSI laptop and the bios has not option to change the hard drive type. Bios recognizes the hd but when trying to install xp it says there is no hdd present. What do I do?
I have the same error, on my gateway mx6214, bios shows harddrive but xp doesnt see it, ubuntu does however, I need xp to be installed asap without a floppy drive anyone please help I have a windows xp disk from bestbuy with its own product key, please help
i have built couple of pc's and never ran across this problem ever. I got a hp laptop from a friend to re install windows for them and I got the error mentioned above.
While I was in the middle of the nLite program I decided to keep looking and found this page. I reset the bios to Disable the sata and IT WORKED PERFECTLY!
How did you go about disabling Phoenix? I have an Alienware M7700 with RAID and it isn't recognizing the hard drive when installing XP or in BIOS. I read something about upgrading the RAID controller driver using an external floppy drive????
There is a point where the XP install asks you to insert a floppy with the RAID drivers. Something about "press F6 if you have a RAID driver to install".
I did the same thing as suggested above xpcman however it still did not work. When using the nlite I also included the intel chip drivers for my Gateway MX6214. This was my third XP cd burn before I had it working correctly. Cheers!
