If you read the comments from “How to Install OS X Leopard on a PC – iATKOS v1.0i Tutorial” you’ll see the issues I had when I tried to install Microsoft Windows XP after removing Ox86 Leopard from my Compaq laptop. When I booted the Windows XP Pro installation CD I was getting the error message “Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer”. After trying several times to partition and format (with no luck) I decided to try a very neat tool out called nLite.
nLite allowed me to configure my Microsoft Windows install CD by adding drivers and applications. I downloaded my laptop’s sata controller driver from Compaq’s website and added it and to the driver configuration portion of nLite as well as selecting “Bootable ISO”. After a couple minutes I had a new bootable Windows XP installation CD and no more missing hard disk error.
From what I found this error is quite normal for people that have sata hard drives, who have installed Microsoft Windows Vista and decided to downgrade back to Microsoft Windows XP.
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I had the same problem going from Ubuntu (on a previously Vista machine) to Windows XP Home. Turned out needed to turn of the SATA auto-detect or whatever it was in the BIOS. Was set to ‘ENABLED’, and worked fine when disabled. Hope this helps someone.
I’m dealing with this issue right now, but I dont’ have Vista, only XP…I’m going to give it a shot to see if it works. My BOOT.INI file is messed up and I need to boot from the CD to rebuild it….
I really hope this works!