Re-install can't find drive

Windows XP operating system does not load. I tried to repair the OS by following the instructions found here, but when I click on R a message appears it cannot find any hard drive to install the operating system to. I'm dead in the water or is it possible to reinstall without losing all the data on the disc.

Well done.

Things with XP and SATA drives is if the BIOS is set to SATA operation, when you try to start on a XP installation CD, the boot CD will not be able to find the disk from the CD does not have SATA drivers (unless you make your own bootable CD with slipstreamed inside SATA drivers).

What you see usually is a scary message like this (did you see?):

Setup did not find any hard drives installed in your computer.

Make sure that the hard drives are powered on and properly connected
to your computer and that any hardware configuration of the discs is
fix.  This number involves running a diagnosis provided by the manufacturer
or Setup.

Setup cannot continue.  To quit Setup, press F3.

Your situation may be complicated because you are using a RAID configuration, so I will give your some general ideas that would work in a RAID configuration with a SATA drive and keep my fingers crossed that they will work for you - otherwise, you should probably look for help in the Communities of Dell Support Forums.

If you find that any of these ideas make you uncomfortable, so I wanted to wait for assistance to someone else, or just jump on the Forums of Dell's Support and work from there.  Still, I'm not sure this kind of thing because you have a RAID setup and has no way for me to test.

You must enter the BIOS to find where the type of HARD disk drive are selected and adjust it.  It may take some trial and error.

Before you perform any BIOS setting, make a note of what the current setting is where things get worse, you can at least get back to where you were before you started and then seek additional guidance.

If you find that the mode is set on the RAID/SATA mode, change the IDE mode.

If you find that the mode is set to SATA, change the IDE mode.

If you find that the mode is set to SATA, SATA mode off.

If you find that the mode is set to AHCI, change the ATA mode.

If you find that the mode is set to AHCI emulation Mode, change the IDE emulation mode.

If you find that the mode is set to SATA, SATA mode off or change the ATA mode.

If you find that the mode is set to SATA Native Mode, disable the native SATA Mode.

If you find that the mode is set on AHCI/RAID Autodetect, change the combination mode.

After completing the settings, ACCEPT and SAVE changes and reboot the system and see if it the installation detects the drives.

I hope you will reply back and let us know what you find and what you need to do to get things to work (I do follow the notes).

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