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I'm trying to reinstall XP but i get an error message saying that it can't reinstall because i have no hard drives recognized. Does anyone have any ideas what to do? Thanks.
Maybe this will guide you
How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XPWatch for help from others.
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You have not mentioned any details about the Computer's Hardware Specifications and BIOS Setup that would be needed to answer the question in a specific manner.
Using just the paraphrased error message you have provided, I would guess either your Hard Disk drive is Damaged or NOT connected properly to the Motherboard Connector using Proper Signal Cable and/ or Power supply.
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I'll try to provide more information when I get home but for now: This was a custom built computer (not by me) and since I'm not extensively computer literate this may be an easily solvable problem. I do notice when booting up it does say something like "primary slave - None" etc etc. But it always has and I've had no problems with the comp.
About a week ago, I accidentally deleted some registry files and since then I've been having some bizarre problems, most notably the monitor going blank and the computer rebooting itself. Sometimes it doesn't even reboot itself. The monitor will go black, the CPU will start beeping and a message on the screen will say "no sync". I've had other problems as well and I've tried to restore the registry, to no avail. And now I can't even reinstall XP??
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actually the message is a result of not hitting f6 during the first phase of setup and feeding the OS the ide/drive controller driver.
I suspect you need a specific driver and can't use the generic one XP loades. This driver would be available on your mainboard cd or can be downloaded from the mainboard manufacturers web site.
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The reference is about the Motherboard = Mainboard = Systemboard that come with a CD that contains the drivers for all the embedded (Integrated) devices.
If you have a SATA (Serial ATA) hard disk drive you may have to provide drivers for that during boot up. [Your Boxed SATA HDD would have come with the driver in a floppy; if it is a barebone SATA HDD, you may have to download and create a driver diskette frrom the HDD manufacture's support site]. You will get a prompt to press F6 if you have SCSI or RAID . Press F6 Windows will continue to install then ask you to locate the driver. Now with the floppy disk created earlier in drive A: select the driver and hit Enter.NOTE: If you are downloading and creating the driver diskette, DONOT make any folder in the follppy to keep the driver. Create it in its root.
With the SATA drivers installed you can now continue the Windows installation as usual.
Needless to say , the above pertains to a SATA HDD Not to IDE HDD.
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Have you tried a system restore?
If the XP system restore don't work you can do it by getting an 9x boot disk with scanreg on it and boot with it and at the A prompt type in scanreg/restore and it will give you the option of going back to before you changed your registry.
Hope this helps
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stump,
Are you sure when booted with Win9X Startup Disk modified by the addition of Scareg.exe and the program executed by Scanreg /Restore at the A: prompt will help to bring up a Backedup Registry with dates to Restore from in a WinXP System?
I have never heard of this and I could find no reference to that in Microsoft Knowledge base.
Can you please post a reference? :-)
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Does this have a SATA drive? If nearly new it will and this can cause some grief. You might want to go to the manufacturer's web site or google for "sata drive". You have to load this before XP since it is newer than it.
You can avoid many of these Windows problems with Linux. Linspire eases the transition for new users
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