WinXP installed but no HD to format ... Hello,I have a running windows xp home on a fujitsu siemens laptop (M3438G) with some troubles; I wanted to format a ...

joedotm · 08-31-2008, 03:15 AM

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

qhn · 09-01-2008, 03:29 AM

It is likely that you would need a sata driver in hand, and loaded, before XP can see the drive

cheers ...

computer_guynyc · 06-06-2009, 05:19 PM

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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Quote:

Originally Posted by joedotm

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

gill_za · 10-20-2009, 08:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by qhn

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

08-31-2008, 03:15 AM	#1
joedotm Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 2 Credits: -339	WinXP installed but no HD to format 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 Last edited by joedotm; 08-31-2008 at 03:49 AM.

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