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Windows XP installing problem!!!

by Chinmay_007 Aug 4, 2007 3:17AM PDT

I have just recently bought a HP Pavillion dv9000 laptop that came with Windows Vista. As most of us have experienced, Vista is not really what we expected it to be so after 2 months of using Vista on this laptop I finally got the guts and the time to install Windows XP.

The problem is when I put in my CD to install XP during boot-up everything goes fine(checking hardware, loading xp files) until where it says press ENTER to load XP. When I press ENTER the next page says I dont have a harddrive properly installed and then it tells me to plug in a harddrive and make sure its turned on properly inside my computer.

Now I have been using this harddrive for 2 months on Vista and I dont have the guts to open up my laptop to check if my harddrive is plugged in. I am saying, the harddrive is obviously plugged in if I have been using it for 2 months.

What is the problem? anyone else had the same problem and how did you fix it? Plz help me fix this problem.

By the way, I want to dual boot XP with Vista, I dont want to install Vista over XP, i want to install XP with Vista already installed.

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That issue has been beat to death (in my opinion)

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Aug 4, 2007 3:57AM PDT

Please read the ongoing discussions so you can learn why this happens, what to do and move on to the real issues.

What discussions?

This one just to start:

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-12546_102-0.html?forumID=133&threadID=243153&messageID=2460401

And it's a HP with the same old SATA issue.

Bob

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