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WinXP installed but no HD to format

post #1 of 4
8/31/08 at 5:15am
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Hello,

I have a running windows xp home on a fujitsu siemens laptop (M3438G) with some troubles; I wanted to format and reinstall;

After booting from WinXP CD, I get a message that no Hard disk found.

I go into the bios setup, look at the HD in the IDE configuration but see no HD but only the DVD device.

In the device manager, I see twice: Samsung HM060II SCSI disk device

Please advise.

Thank you
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post #2 of 4
9/1/08 at 5:29am
It is likely that you would need a sata driver in hand, and loaded, before XP can see the drive

cheers ...
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post #3 of 4
6/6/09 at 7:19pm

Hard Drive

Try the folowing :-

Check HDD Cable connection on Systemboard.
Use Fujitsu Recovery CDs (home edition) then use XP Pro cd.

Good Luck

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Originally Posted by joedotm View Post
Hello,

I have a running windows xp home on a fujitsu siemens laptop (M3438G) with some troubles; I wanted to format and reinstall;

After booting from WinXP CD, I get a message that no Hard disk found.

I go into the bios setup, look at the HD in the IDE configuration but see no HD but only the DVD device.

In the device manager, I see twice: Samsung HM060II SCSI disk device

Please advise.

Thank you
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post #4 of 4
10/20/09 at 10:51am
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Originally Posted by qhn View Post
It is likely that you would need a sata driver in hand, and loaded, before XP can see the drive

cheers ...
Agree. Definately needs SATA Drivers. I had this problem and needed to slipstream SATA drivers from the drivers cd into a custom WinXP Pro distro using nlite. Slipstreaming just SP2 or SP3 did not help because fujitsu used custom SATA drivers not present in the service packs.

My laptop: E8210
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