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Win XP Setup Does Not Detect Hard Disk
Hi,
Dimension 9150, single 160GB SATA drive. Booting from Windows XP setup CD I get an error "Setup did not detect any hard disks"
I've checked available downloads but cannot see a mass storage driver to use during setup.
BIOS is set as RAID/AHCI but I'm wary of changing this setting before I'm sure this may be part of the problem.
Thanks for any help.
shesagordie
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Posted December 24th, 2006 19:00
sentinetYou need to make a change in the BIOS setting. The D-9150 reinstallation procedures are the same as the D-9100,Bev.- You will need to download this driver:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R130118&SystemID=XPS/DIMENSION%20400/9150&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=8615&devlib=0&typecnt=2&vercnt=2&formatcnt=1&libid=41&fileid=173456
Put it on a floppy diskette, press F6 when indicated during XP setup, and insert the diskette into an internal (NOT USB) floppy drive.
The driver will load and the hard drive will be found.
It is far easier to use the quick restore (CTRL-F11 at boot) to reload Windows. Lionheartilly
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Posted December 25th, 2006 11:00
Hi everyone and Merry Christmas!I read through the posts and the links and understand what needs to be done; however, during the initial Win XP set up screen, my F6 to install SCSI ... does not work. I've tried it with 2 keyboards and it doesn't work. The F2 for (Automated Recovery ...) works. Does anyone know a potential solution to it?Thanks,Lion
dave51_2fe887
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Posted December 24th, 2006 19:00