Windows Installation Can't Find Drive

[watdahel]

I'm trying to install Windows XP Home on my friends HP nc6400 laptop. From what I can tell the factory OS was wiped out. I did not find any recovery disk or partition on the drive. Windows XP Pro is currently installed and appears to be a bootleg.

Anyway I tried to install XP Home on it. After the installation copies the contents of the CD to the harddrive it tells me it can't find any harddrive. F3(quit) is the only option that is given. I do so and I'm still able to load the current XP Pro installation so I know the harddrive is working.

What am I missing here? Is there a security setting I need to change in the bios or a switch? The addressing is also set to Bit-Shift and not LBA by default. I don't think that's the problem though.

 

[KGB]

You'll need the chipset drivers (on a floppy or slipstreamed) to get the disk controller working during the install. What SP level is the XP Home disk?

 

[Brainonska511]

If you're using SP2 or higher, you should be able to install on a computer using a SATA hard drive without using pre-installation RAID drivers. If you don't have SP2 or higher to install, you can slipstream either SP2/SP3 into the disc using N-Lite or slipstreaming the SATA drivers and Chipset drivers into the disc.

 

[watdahel]

Mine is sp2. I'll try slipstreaming sp3 and if that doesn't work I'll slipstream the drivers.