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BKSinAZ · 11-10-2007, 07:39 AM

I am currently working on my mom's HP Pavilion DV5000 notebook.
I just purchased a new Western Digital SATA hard drive and I am attempting to replace it. I've replaced 100's of IDE hard drives into desktops and laptops before, but this is my first SATA. When I boot off my Windows XP Pro installation disk and attempt to install XP, it states something like "no hard drives were found installed on this computer, can not continue with install". When I go into the bios and disable the SATA, the computer recognizes the drive. This is confusing. Is the SATA suppose to be enabled when using a SATA hard drive? Also, is there suppose to be a driver with a sata drive?

11-10-2007, 07:39 AM	#1 (permalink)
BKSinAZ Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 104 OS: XP Pro	SATA Drive, what am I doing wrong? I am currently working on my mom's HP Pavilion DV5000 notebook. I just purchased a new Western Digital SATA hard drive and I am attempting to replace it. I've replaced 100's of IDE hard drives into desktops and laptops before, but this is my first SATA. When I boot off my Windows XP Pro installation disk and attempt to install XP, it states something like "no hard drives were found installed on this computer, can not continue with install". When I go into the bios and disable the SATA, the computer recognizes the drive. This is confusing. Is the SATA suppose to be enabled when using a SATA hard drive? Also, is there suppose to be a driver with a sata drive? Last edited by BKSinAZ; 11-10-2007 at 07:55 AM.