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Once upon a time along log time ago in a Kitchen not to far from Luton lived a young man, He had a pc that was having problems and he decided to reinstall windows xp. After going through the install process he found he had no driver cd for his motherboard after searching the internet for new drivers he became weary at installing new ones because of the risks involved.
Then the not so bright young man found a folder on c: drive ladled DRIVERS. This folder held all the drivers he required and after installing and rebooting everything worked except the sound, he tried to reinstall the sound drivers again but no luck (the sound card is on the motherboard) so i found the latest nforce4 drivers installed them and restarted.
The pc booted and got to the windows loading screen and froze the hard drive light flickered on constantly, he left it for 15 minutes but nothing so he decided to reboot again, it started to load and suddenly came up with a screen saying “ please insert system disk and press enter” so i entered the cd in to the drive and rebooted the xp set up went thought the motions of loading the drivers then to my horror informed me i have no hard disks and to press f6 to restart.
What on earth have i done?? how can i do anything if i cant see my hard drive ?? anyone know what the situation is and if there is any light at the end of the rather dark tunnel
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Posted: 2005-05-03 10:23:17
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anyone
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Posted: 2005-05-03 11:10:03
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just format the drive and try re-installing windows again. normally does the trick for me, are you using a recovery disk or just a windows xp setup disk?
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Posted: 2005-05-03 11:27:06
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How can i format the drive when its not detected ?? its a recovery disk but it is basicly just winxp
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Posted: 2005-05-03 11:27:56
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whats the make and model of your system?
[ This Message was edited by: jagger2k on 2005-05-03 10:30 ]
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Posted: 2005-05-03 11:28:44
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The joys of microsoft...
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Posted: 2005-05-03 11:29:17
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Its a Mesh, i belive after installing the MB drivers its some how lost the SATA connection i think i will cry
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Posted: 2005-05-03 11:44:49
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it only sounds like a software problem so it should be ok, urm....so what does it say as soon as you put the disks in a power up? u got a startup disk?
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Posted: 2005-05-03 11:51:42
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Well if i dont put the disk in then it tells me to put one in and press enter.
If i do then it loads up the winxp setup, it then gets to the next screen and tells me i dont have any hard drives, which is worring.
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Posted: 2005-05-03 11:55:59
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i love pcs.
take it to bits, remove the bios battery for 5 mins and reset, and try and install XP again.
that should work?
fatreg
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Posted: 2005-05-03 12:06:59
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