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robertelo · 10-23-2008, 12:47 PM

Hi everyone,

I have bought a new ACER laptop with VISTA installed, i didn't like vista and managed to install XP. I reboot with ULTIMATE BOOTBALE CD in a DOS environment... I used the utility FDISK, i deleted all the partitions and format it.. then i reboot with XP INSTALLATION CD insterted. but it says " THE HARD DISK IS UNDETECTABLE PLEASE CHECK IF IT IS CONNECTED OR WELL CONFIGURED........." something like that..

I really don't know what happened to my brand new hard disk.. I have many utilities in the ULTIMATE BOOTABLE CD but i don't now which one to use to fix this problem.

Please help me, urgent replies are appreciated

Thanks everyone

10-23-2008, 12:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
robertelo Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 2 OS: VISTA	URGENT HELP PLEASE - XP- installation HARD DRIVE UNDETECTED Hi everyone, I have bought a new ACER laptop with VISTA installed, i didn't like vista and managed to install XP. I reboot with ULTIMATE BOOTBALE CD in a DOS environment... I used the utility FDISK, i deleted all the partitions and format it.. then i reboot with XP INSTALLATION CD insterted. but it says " THE HARD DISK IS UNDETECTABLE PLEASE CHECK IF IT IS CONNECTED OR WELL CONFIGURED........." something like that.. I really don't know what happened to my brand new hard disk.. I have many utilities in the ULTIMATE BOOTABLE CD but i don't now which one to use to fix this problem. Please help me, urgent replies are appreciated Thanks everyone