PC doesn't DETECT XP during installation. Vista installation is fine.

PC doesn't DETECT XP during installation. Vista installation is fine.

Hello

I have a laptop that was previously installed on the xp machine. The system crashed and I tried to reinstall Xp home edition. But when I did that, he threw an error that it could not detect my hard drive. myinitial was that the hard drive had crashed, but the BIOS test he returned no errors. I tried vista on the machine and found that it functioned perfectly well. I trid re - install xp on the computer from the vista desktop, but it would throw into the same error after the re-start of the system. "Could not find hard disk..." Please advice...

ATTENTION: You can not wake XP if you do not have a real XP install disc. If you try to use a recovery disc that simply does not work. I assumed you had an installation disk XP at retail with a unique product key. The only way you can use the product key on the laptop for an XP installation is if you have a generic OEM installation disc with the same version of XP that what was initially installed on the laptop. Subsequently, you will need to install all the drivers and the specific portable software for this model. You will get these from HP website.

Again, a much better solution in your case is to buy someone or HP recovery discs as RestoreDisks.com. MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

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