Pls help me I'm so confused here

[malaykosau]

I was formatting my pc's frend when I try to boot from cd it will boot and go to the windows setup screen but the problem is I can delete any partition and I have 2 partition but It can detect only the C: drive the D: was not there.. when I try to install the windows to C: it wont continue. It sed that windows cannot detect any hard drive watsoever.  My frend have an OS windows xp home edition but it was expired and he  install a new OS in D: a windows xp sp2 but when he tries to use the newest installed OS it wont continue... so much problem so much to say heheheh pls help me...

[malaykosau]

sorry for the thoughts Id written, I tried my best to translate it in a universal language so It can be read ....

[911j]

Hi.

Have you tried to to Hit the change boot order ( F2 or F10). You should be able to select boot form the DVD drive manually. Also. Are you using a restore disk? The Restore that you are using has to be in a bootable format. If all else fails, pull the hard drive, put it in an external Dock or case and reformat it on your computer to clean it out completely. Then you should be able to out it back in the your friends computer and install a new OS. Remeber the disk for the restore has to be bootable to boot from the CD/DVD drive. I hope this helps you out.

[JJ 3000]

So when you boot into setup, you delete your partitions, create two new partitions (C and D) and then try to set up windows on the C drive. This is where the errors start. Is that right?
What operating system are you trying to install?

[malaykosau]

I want to install windows xp  but everytime I nid to delete a partition theres a hidden drive its like a hidden partition C drive is in there but the D: is not there.  And when I try to delete the C: partition it was unable to delete it and then when I try also to install the said OS there was also an error it says no hard drive found or sumthing ...

[killerb255]

Are the hard drives IDE or SATA?

How big are the hard drives?

[malaykosau]

the Hard Drive is SATA is has 80gb memory capacity

[killerb255]

Ah, SATA.

You may need to slipstream the motherboard SATA drivers into your Windows XP installation source and burn a new CD.  Use nLite for this purpose:

http://www.nliteos.com/guide/part1.html

[Trizle1]

As you quoted" error it says no hard drive found or sumthing ...
" when you such message you should load to CMOS setup an auto-detect you HDD, save and exit, then reboot

[patio]

As you quoted" error it says no hard drive found or sumthing ...
" when you such message you should load to CMOS setup an auto-detect you HDD, save and exit, then reboot

I'd like to know what this means...

[BC_Programmer]

it means, "I have nothing useful to contribute, so I will add a meaningless method of doing absolutely nothing useful"

[patio]

Gotcha...that's what i thought...

[Trizle1]

It means the hard disk was bypassed during POST. To rectify, you autodetect

[BC_Programmer]

It means the hard disk was bypassed during POST. To rectify, you autodetect

wow, I wish I had the psychic ability to know their CMOS settings.
if it really was being "bypassed" then setting the drive from "<None>" to <Auto> would fix it.

There was no hardware changes before this inability for windows to detect the drive. Your essentially saying that computers will decide randomly, "hey, I'm bored. I know, I'll stop recognizing this particular drive for absolutely no rhyme or reason until the user goes through a useless and unproductive set of CMOS options that leave them back where they started but somehow manage to redetect the drive".

Doubtful.

The issue is almost certainly an OS issue.

[Trizle1]

********* BC prog, you dont have to know the CMOS setup b4 you know what to do,let an error msg be your guide. Get ittt....