
Originally Posted by
ghunrem
Hi IPsuite. You mentioned your drive was SATA and that it was detected in the bios. It may just be a driver problem upon installing windows. If you can also tell us what operating system you were installing and your motherboard's model, that would help. Windows XP SP2 can't sometimes detect SATA hard drives due to a lack of storage drivers for some of the newer motherboards. Which is why that error "Setup cannot find any hard disks installed" shows up just after you are about to enter setup. You might want to try using a windows XP installer with SP3. Or you can tinker your bios and find that setting which allows your SATA to run in compatibility or IDE mode. Change it from Enhanced to either Compatibility or IDE mode. Save the settings and try installing again. Hope this helps.

nakaremember ko na ako ni g update ako XP SP2 to SP3. then mao to ako ta e reformat using my XP SP2 CD. ECS 865G-M8 FSB800 brand sa mobo..recently d naman gud ma detect sa bios ang HD unya naka IDE mode man ang SATA ani bro..