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[Acheron]

I am desperately trying to boot xp on my new laptop and i just cant.
Maybe i am doing something dump here but here is what i got.

i first set up the boot priority from bios and so it starts bootting from cd.Just as it has loaded all windows files and i am ready to continue i get this message that Windows was not able to find any active hard drive volumes in my system !

i set up bios to default and i get the same.
any ideas ?

[TkTech]

Is this from eBay? I've had other people complain before just to eventually notice that it really didn't have a HD.

On a side note, does XP support LVM?

[gszauer]

I had a similar problem with a Pavilion dv9000 laptop.
I am assuming your laptop is fairly new.
The problem with the newer laptops is the SATA Hard drive connection. It's too fast for XP.
You can install VISTA on it, and ironically enough windows 98 as well.
Or, during the xp setup, you may need to specify a third party driver for your HD.

[John]

I once had this error and it drove my nuts. I just needed to load 3rd party drivers during the setup (I think its F3).

[TcM]

Well if it has a SATA drive XP setup does not see it, that happens on my desktop, all you need is to find the drivers from the website of your HD, then make them on a floppy and when you boot the CD on the bottom it tells you press F2 for auto recovery (or something like that) and afterwards it will tell you press F6 to specify a device or something like that, press F6 and then after sometime loading, it will ask you for the drivers.. insert the floppy and press S or whatever it tells you to... select the drivers for XP and continue installing happily..

hope this helps.

[Acheron]

You were right i set up my HD as IDE from bios main menu and it worked ! thenx !

[gszauer]

There is another solution, you may be able to set support for Legacy SATA in your BIOS

[Danerd100]

TkTech said:

On a side note, does XP support LVM?

NO!!! Windows does not like LVM. I discovered this the hard way

[TcM]

Acheron said:

You were right i set up my HD as IDE from bios main menu and it worked ! thenx !

Will the HD will be really treated as an IDE (with the IDE speeds etc??) or just an emulation? because IDE speed.. sucks

[Acheron]

^I am not sure,i dont think so but i suspect that after you boot you can change it right back right ?
XP didnt work anyway so i am back to the original.

[TkTech]

No...you can't just change it back once its running....

[Acheron]

hm,so how do you boot a sata drive with xp and make it work like a sata ?