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elzman

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I'm hoping someone can help me with this situation i'm in, i have a xps 400 and the OS window was winxp home edition that were infected, so i decided to upgrade my OS window to winxp pro anyway, after putting the os disc in pc system, i restarted the pc to boot to cd then proceeded to partition area but didnt see drive c or any other drive,
jus a blank area but below instructing me to do the following familiar step hit enter to create or L for delete etc...., as tho the partition or unpartition drive were there weird. i tried putting a new sata hard drive in jus to see if i solve it that way but it treated the new drive the same way. so please any suggestions thank u soo for your help.
 
elzman said:
I'm hoping someone can help me with this situation i'm in, i have a xps 400 and the OS window was winxp home edition that were infected, so i decided to upgrade my OS window to winxp pro anyway, after putting the os disc in pc system, i restarted the pc to boot to cd then proceeded to partition area but didnt see drive c or any other drive,
jus a blank area but below instructing me to do the following familiar step hit enter to create or L for delete etc...., as tho the partition or unpartition drive were there weird. i tried putting a new sata hard drive in jus to see if i solve it that way but it treated the new drive the same way. so please any suggestions thank u soo for your help.
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If I get what you are saying, if your windows is uninstalled, it may not be recognizing the sata hard drive as motherboards won't ever recognize them. Do you have a floppy that came with your motherboard? You'll have to install the drivers from there so it will recognize your hard drive when you try to install it.

Or you can follow this tutorial (What i did for my friend's computer:)
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Install-Windows-XP-On-SATA-Without-a-Floppy-F6-47807.shtml
 
elzman said:
I'm hoping someone can help me with this situation i'm in, i have a xps 400 and the OS window was winxp home edition that were infected, so i decided to upgrade my OS window to winxp pro anyway, after putting the os disc in pc system, i restarted the pc to boot to cd then proceeded to partition area but didnt see drive c or any other drive,
jus a blank area but below instructing me to do the following familiar step hit enter to create or L for delete etc...., as tho the partition or unpartition drive were there weird. i tried putting a new sata hard drive in jus to see if i solve it that way but it treated the new drive the same way. so please any suggestions thank u soo for your help.
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You will need to slipstream the sata controller driver into a new install cd using Nlite. You will need to download this file and then use the extracted files in order to create a new install cd.

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=41&fileid=173456

Or if you have a floppy drive in this computer just put these files on a floppy. Boot to the install cd and when it says press f6 to install additional raid drivers, press it. It will then ask for the drivers on the floppy.
 
ok thank you i will try that and no i dont have the floppy that came with motherboard, plus i think it was a cd if not are there drivers on dell website i can get to install on a cd and then install?
 
elzman said:
ok thank you i will try that and no i dont have the floppy that came with motherboard, plus i think it was a cd if not are there drivers on dell website i can get to install on a cd and then install?
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You either must slipstream those drivers on a new install cd or hook up a floppy drive to the computer. When pressing F6 the xp install looks for sata drivers on a floppy not a cd.
 
i finally got it working believe it or not, i installed windows 7 ultimate successfully and then reinstall drivers from there and wallah!!! no problem even tho windows 7 wasn't my intension of doing so, i wanted to put back windows pro but i think i'm going keep to this awesome upgrade and just go up to 2gb of memory it recommends lol nice!!!, i thank everyone for your help.
 
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