Install Windows XP Professional

[Dark master]

I just installed a floppydrive, but I didn't get any drivers on floppy with my pc, I did get some on cd but not on one them is a hard drive driver.

Operating System : Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
Processor : 3,00 Ghz Intel Pentium 4
System Model : Dell inc. Dimension 8400
Drives : ST380013AS [Hard drive] (80,00 GB)

Main Circuit Board

Board: Dell inc. 0J3492
Bus Clock: 800 Mhz
BIOS: Dell inc. A01 07/17/2004

 

[Yeti]

Go into your BIOS (F2 on startup). In the drives section does it list your drive and specs? Also what is the drive controller set to (options should be RAID autodetect/AHCI, RAID autodetect/ATA, or RAID on)? I would also still recommend email support from Dell, it can't hurt.

 

[Dark master]

I emailed to dell's customers support.

Drives specs:

Controller: Serial ATA
Port: SATA-0
Drive ID: ST380013AS
BIOS: this drive is controlled by the system BIOS

SATA Operation: RAID Autodetect/AHCI

 

[Yeti]

SATA Operation: RAID Autodetect/AHCI

I figured you might say that. I believe that you need to install the RAID drivers in order for it to work in AHCI mode. Try changing it to RAID Autodetect/ATA. I think that should work. Or you could make a RAID driver floppy disk and do the F6 driver install when installing windows. For more info on that go here:
http://support.dell.com/support/top...kb/en/document?dn=1091375&c=us&l=en&s=gen&cs=

 

[Dark master]

It worked, I'm installing professional right now, (this is my moms computer) thanks