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Issues replacing hard drive

  • 02-11-2009 3:51pm
    #1
    Noviceman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I'm trying to replace a sata hard drive on a HP 4300 Workstation and am having some issues. The machine had xp installed on an existing sata drive and the hard drive died. I bought a new drive and connect it and then try to install XP and i get the messages saying that the hard drive is not recognised blah blah....

    I had a look in the Bios and I don't see anything in there that I can change, am a bit lost, anyone any ideas of what I can try?

    Ta


Comments

  • #2
    RoadKillTs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭RoadKillTs


    Hi,

    It's in the BIOS allright. Look under the drive section for AHCI and disable it.
    Think that's it. Been a while since I did it.


  • #3
    Gone Drinking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,809 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    Windows XP doesn't have SATA drivers embedded in it, thats why it can't find the drive.

    There's a walk through here on how to go around it, i did it a few months back on a friends machine..

    http://pctechlife.com/forums/index.php?topic=66.msg71#msg71


  • #4
    Noviceman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭Noviceman


    i got it finally, i didn't have to go through that whole process in the last post thank God, i saw that previously when i searched the web....

    i knew it was some setting in the bios, but didn't know which one, so if someone else has a HP with similar bios, this is what i did, i changed sata emulator from Raid to combination ide controller, and it worked, no idea what i was at, but fixed it, cheers


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