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DV1000t XP Pro Clean Install Error - Can't Find Hard Drive
Hey everyone,
My mom just bought a brand new HP DV1000t from Costco.com and got it yesterday. It's loaded with XP Home and of course all the bloatware. I tried bringing over my full legit Volume License copy of Win XP Pro to do a clean install on her system. Unfortunately, after the XP Pro Disk does all of its initial setup scans, when you choose the option to do a clean install, it says Windows XP Pro can't find a working Hard Disk! WHHHAAAAT! I know there is one, cause it boots into XP Home fine. I also know the disk works, cause I've used it many times... so what is the deal? Is there something else I need to do? Do I need to pre-install a hard drive driver of some sort or change any settings in the BIOS? What am I missing?
Any and all help is TRULY appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
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Re: DV1000t XP Pro Clean Install Error - Can't Find Hard Drive
Just found out that the dv1000t has a SATA HDD which Windows XP doesn't support out of the box when installing.
You'll need to find some SATA drivers.
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So does that mean I'm screwed or is there a driver I can install int he beginning where XP asks you to hit F3 for Raid or SCSI drivers?
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Check here:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search
Don't know for sure if one of those links will help, but googling for "SATA driver windows XP boot" should lead to an answer.
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Re: DV1000t XP Pro Clean Install Error - Can't Find Hard Drive
Go into the BIOS setup and under configuration, disable Native SATA support. This should allow the XP install CD to read the drive. You can then enable the support once you have loaded the OS.
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I hope you may change the BIOS setting as suggested above and have the problem solved. My DV4000 has very limited options in the BIOS setting (compare to other laptops and desktops). Anyway, I posted the driver link in the other forum you asked the exact same question. DV1000T uses Intel mobile 945 express chipset and the SATA driver can be found here.
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I had the exact same problem. Even with the SATA drivers from Intel's site I had problems cleanly installing the OS because Windows install will only load updated drivers from a floppy drive and I don't have a floppy drive on the laptop. It also WON'T load the SATA drivers from a USB key or USB harddrive. I ended up using an application called NLite (http://www.nliteos.com/) to create a new XP CD w/ the SATA drivers integrated onto them.
I got everything installed now, but I don't have drivers for the modem. HP doesn't have them on their site, and when I chatted w/ HP support, they told me that all DV1000s have the same modem and I should use the ones from the DV1000 since they were the same as the DV1000t. Well, they're not, so if anyone figures out where to get drivers for the modem, please let me know. HP support seems clueless on this.
Thanks.
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I know there will be a problem some time down the road when there is no floppy drive. I got one from SONY when it was ~$15 shipped several months ago. I wonder if you have checked the CD that came with your laptop. I found all the drivers on a CD as well as in the \SWSETUP directory. Instead stripping the original OS, I've added a second partition for clean installation of WinXP Pro (on my DV4000) while keeping old one. If you have to do a clean installation of OS, I'll first back up at least the SWSETUP directory.
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Re: DV1000t XP Pro Clean Install Error - Can't Find Hard Drive
Just found out that the dv1000t has a SATA HDD which Windows XP doesn't support out of the box when installing.
You'll need to find some SATA drivers.
I got no clue about this sorry. But this is funny :D :p
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Re: DV1000t XP Pro Clean Install Error - Can't Find Hard Drive
Trust me. For the dv1000t (which I own). All you need to do is disable the SATA native support in the bios. I've tried it and it works like a charm. No need to get drivers, make slipstream cd, etc. Just change the setting.
HKINGS have you tried this?