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Can't Find Hard Drive
Name: perksreddog Date: March 29, 2008 at 13:54:05 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 1024 Product: IBM T60
Comment:
I wiped my hard drive clean -- and put winxp setup disk in -- that gets to a certain point -- says, 'starting windows' and then I get a message saying setup cannot continue because it does not detect a hard drive.....hellllp!!!
you will need to obtain the drivers for the drive controller card, put it on floppy and load it on setup by pressing f6.
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Response Number 4
Name: OtheHill Date: March 29, 2008 at 17:06:58 Pacific
Reply:
This is a laptop isn't it? The harddrive controller should be natively supported. Boot into the BIOS screens and verify the harddrive is identified in the BIOS.
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