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    Tishrinig Posts: 2, Reputation: 1
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    Mar 10, 2009, 04:07 PM
    Can't instal os
    Hello,

    I have a HP Pavilion laptop that had a corrupt os and I formatted and tried to reinstall. I find I cannot instal as the os cannot find a hard disk on the system. Yet the hard drive can be assessed through a USB connection on another system I have. I tried various Hard Tishrinig.
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    Mar 10, 2009, 08:12 PM

    How did you format it?

    What did you use to try and reinstall?

    Did the laptop come with recovery software?
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    Mar 11, 2009, 05:30 AM
    Thanks for the quick reply. I would have formatted using the feature in win xp setup procedure but my first intimation of the prblem was when Win Xp CD copied software and was about to reinstal new win xp and got a message "No hard drive detected on this system". I then removed it and attached a USB external holder and accessed the drive on another system I have. That showed it was o.k. So I formatted using as a local disk on my computer in the other system. The os to instal was XP, it originally came with Vista.
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    Mar 11, 2009, 05:42 AM
    You can try resetting the BIOS to its default settings. Once you enter the BIOS you should see that option available to you.
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    Mar 11, 2009, 03:10 PM

    Your laptop may have an SATA hard drive and the setup disk you are using does not have SATA drivers

    So at this point, going to need to get an XP install disk that has SATA drivers integrated into the install so that it can recognize the drive
    -or try to see if the SATA drivers can be found for your model hard drive

    1st option is easier
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