peter e Posted June 9, 2012 Report Share Posted June 9, 2012 Hi everyone. I'd appreciate some assistance. I have an old Evesham desktop PC on which the original hard drive failed. My Sister-in-Law needs a new pc because hers is broken, so I brought a new IDE hdd (identical to old one but a different make) for my old computer to fix it up for her. I installed the disk OK inside the tower and set jumper to master because it's the only hard drive. The BIOS recognises and lists the hard drive and the floppy, CD and DVD drives. However, when Windows XP attempts to install I get an error message "windows can not detect any hard disks on this computer." I've googled but none of the solutions for similar problems appears to work. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. I'm a bit of a novice really when it comes to this sort of thing.Many thanks,Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted June 10, 2012 Report Share Posted June 10, 2012 Have you set first boot to CD drive in the BIOS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter e Posted June 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2012 Thank you for responding, Rong. The first boot was the floppy, so I changed it to the CD-ROM (well, DVD actually) , but there's still no change. The BIOS sees all the drives and Windows setup loads various things, but when it gets to the stage where I press enter to install Windows XP it immediately gives the error message " Windows can not find any hard disks on this computer." Most frustrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted June 10, 2012 Report Share Posted June 10, 2012 Have a look at http://www.windowsreinstall.com/winxphome/nohdd/indexfullpage.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter e Posted June 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Sorry not to have responded sooner. Thank you for the link, pops. Not sure I understand it all but will give it a go. Regards.Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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