TO INSTALL LAP TP HARD WARE.

[dhar25]

I am trying to replace the hard drive on my son's lap top and start all over with a new installation of XP operating system.

The problem is that the system is not detecting the hard-drive when trying to install the operating system

The manufacturer says that I need floppy disk that came with that unit to install the hard drive. My son seem to have lost this floppy disk. Is there a way to down load this program to install the hard-dive.

This is an off brand lap top model is called the "Champion" built some where in Detroit Michigan.

 

[VoIPFANATIC]

if the manufacturer says you need a disk. they should be able to provide it to you. or do a search on google.

 

[acewarlock]

You need to make a startup disk for XP and fdisk the drive first, then XP will see it.

 

[Freestone]

Sorry acewarlock but a hard drive can be completely unpartitioned and unformatted and XP will be able to use it.

The floppy referenced by the manufacturer is probably an XP driver diskette for the hard drive controller inside the laptop. The driver is loaded early during the non-GUI stage of an XP install by pressing F6 early and often then waiting for the prompt.

Try the manufacturer as VoIPFANATIC suggests for a source of this diskette.

 

[burtsbees]

Let me guess...SATA hard drive?

Burt

 

[acewarlock]

I'm Sorry Freestone, but you need to tell my Laptop that, XP wouldn't see the drive until I Fdisked it. Not everything works by the rules, sometime we have to do something else.

 

[G0AOZ]

Acewarlock, that's an interesting one... Can you advise make and model of your laptop, and type of drive? (e.g. IDE or SATA).

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[Freestone]

I don't want to hijack dhar25's thread, but I too am interested acewarlock's experience. Please post details. I've yet in over hundreds of installs ever had to use a DOS fdisk command to install an OS, laptop or otherwise.

 

[burtsbees]

I was guessing SATA to see if the manufacturer had slipstreamed SATA drivers into the XP build before installing it, or if they used the F6 option to load third party RAID/SCSI drivers. You usually will not be able to load a regular every day XP Pro on a SATA drive without the drivers.

Burt

 

[acewarlock]

Dell Latitude CPi A, 120Gb IDE HD

 

[acewarlock]

just an added point, if everything worked the way the book say's it should, then we wouldn't need these Forums. I have been working on and programming Computer's since 1964, so I've seen it all.

 

[burtsbees]

Actually, if the hard drive were more like 40GB, I bet it would have installed no problem---the BIOS may be too old on that laptop for it to have seen that large of a hdd.

Burt

 

[acewarlock]

The original HD was a 30Gb w/win98 and replaced with a 120Gb w/XP-PRO, works fine now.