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xcitergr

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Hallo,
I have this problem and i really would like some advice.
I bought a fujitsu-siemens laptop from greece and windows xp are in greek. I tried to do a format and install the english XP but during the procedure of the format I had an error regarding the hard disk, it wasn't recognised by the system. I had to put some new drivers to the system but the only way to do this is only through a floppy drive :( my laptop does not have a floppy drive! Will a usb floppy drive work? Do you have an idea of how I can bypass this problem?? Is in not stupid that windows still need a floppy drive for some stuff??? :mad: help!!!!!!!!!
 
And also it is not a matter of booting, I can boot from a cd! It is a matter of installing third party drivers for the hard disk! :confused:
 
You mean when you reinstall the OS, it's telling you that it doesn't recognize the HD? It should, if you see it in bios, it should come up as a recognizable HD.
 
nope! I can not install at all the new OS, at the beginning of the procedure of installment I get a blue screen that says that a hard disk is not detected! I have witnessed again this problem and you just have to install some other drivers for the hard disk! The problem is that you can only install them through a floppy disk and my laptop does not have one, and there is no alternative way of installing it.:eek:
 
Can you see the HD in bios? Do you still have the original CD's that came with the laptop? if you did a full restoration to the greek OS, there may be an option for another language. Also, even if it didnt, you can try to install WinXP over it afterwards.
 
xcitergr said:
nope! I can not install at all the new OS, at the beginning of the procedure of installment I get a blue screen that says that a hard disk is not detected! I have witnessed again this problem and you just have to install some other drivers for the hard disk! The problem is that you can only install them through a floppy disk and my laptop does not have one, and there is no alternative way of installing it.:eek:
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did it say that you have to install the driver through the floppy disk? or did it say to just install certain drivers?

can u pinpoint the hard disk error specifically? like is it a STOP error message at the blue screen. or what does it say?
 
Let's review the problem again, in order to find a solution:

I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M1437 laptop that came with Windows XP Home Greek Edition, preinstalled. I also have a Recovery CD for the specific model (which has no option for other language than Greek). I boot from an original Windows XP Professional CD, I bought from the store too. The computer boots from the CD properly and the WinXP Installation process continues to the point where a list of partitions/ HDDs should be displayed, except in this case, I get an error "windows installation did not detect any hrd disk drive on your system. Maybe you have to supply third party drivers". So the real problem is that I want to install a fresh copy of Windows XP to this laptop and HDD is not recognized properly. It needs third party drivers. The "drivers & utilities CD" has a SATA/RAID driver to use for installation of Windows XP, but when I press F6 (installation of third party drivers) during the initial screen of WinXP installation process, the only option to "feed" these drivers to the OS Installation program is through a floppy drive, that my PC has not! Will it work with a usb floppy drive? Will it be recognized by the installation process as being drive A: for example? For now, I get also the error: "No floppy drive has been detected on your PC" (after F6 press).

P.S. As we know OEM Operating Systems (usually preinstalled with laptops) can not be upgraded. So either I start the Installation process from in windows home Greek, or I do a boot from the CD, same error appears, if not immediatly, just a few steps beyond.

Thank you again,
Airbus is the Future.
 
Before trying to re-install the new OS, you did completely format the HDD, correct? I didn't read anywhere that you did, only that you tried re-installing the OS with the CD. If not properly formatted, Windows won't recognize the HDD unless you have a seperate un-claimed partition.
 
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