whitpit Posted December 7, 2010 Posted December 7, 2010 sony vaio laptop vgn-nr21j I have fitted a new sata hard drive, load the windows disk and it comes up with error no hard drive found. Any ideas?? many thanks Quote
DSTM Posted December 8, 2010 Posted December 8, 2010 Hi. Enter the Bios and make sure the Boot order is, 1 CD/DVD ROM 2 Hard Drive 3 USB Also,While in the Bios, In "Advanced" area or "Intergrated Peripherals" area find "Sata Controller mode" set this to "IDE mode" Quote Confidence, is the feeling I get, moments before I stuff something up.
whitpit Posted December 8, 2010 Author Posted December 8, 2010 Hi. Enter the Bios and make sure the Boot order is, 1 CD/DVD ROM 2 Hard Drive 3 USB Also,While in the Bios, In "Advanced" area or "Intergrated Peripherals" area find "Sata Controller mode" set this to "IDE mode" In advanced i do not have these options, only to boot from external or network Quote
DSTM Posted December 8, 2010 Posted December 8, 2010 There is one other thing when fitting a new Hard Drive,there is a small plastic piece, that looks like it's part of the old Hard Drive interface. This small plastic piece needs to be taken off your old Hard Drive and fitted to the New Drive. Have a feeling this may have been overlooked,and is this applicable in your case. Please check carefully.:) Quote Confidence, is the feeling I get, moments before I stuff something up.
whitpit Posted December 8, 2010 Author Posted December 8, 2010 There is one other thing when fitting a new Hard Drive,there is a small plastic piece, that looks like it's part of the old Hard Drive interface. This small plastic piece needs to be taken off your old Hard Drive and fitted to the New Drive. Have a feeling this may have been overlooked,and is this applicable in your case. Please check carefully.:) Hi I can not see this, please elaborate Quote
Synapse Posted December 8, 2010 Posted December 8, 2010 The reason it often happens is because it is a Windows XP install that needs an extra SATA driver so that the motherboard can find the drive. Big question is...what version of Windows are you installing, and is it an original CD, Recovery CD or something else. Quote
whitpit Posted December 9, 2010 Author Posted December 9, 2010 The reason it often happens is because it is a Windows XP install that needs an extra SATA driver so that the motherboard can find the drive. Big question is...what version of Windows are you installing, and is it an original CD, Recovery CD or something else. i am installing xp, original machine was vista but i dont have a copy of that Quote
PseFrank Posted December 10, 2010 Posted December 10, 2010 After installing Windows XP SP2 you will need to download and install SP3. The link below will help you. How to obtain the latest Windows XP service pack Quote I thought I knew today...I'll try again tomorrow. :) Need help with your computer problems? Then why not join Free PC Help. Register Here If Free PC Help has helped you then please consider a donation. Click Here
whitpit Posted December 10, 2010 Author Posted December 10, 2010 After installing Windows XP SP2 you will need to download and install SP3. The link below will help you. How to obtain the latest Windows XP service pack I can't install as it wont see the hard drive Quote
Synapse Posted December 10, 2010 Posted December 10, 2010 Go through the BIOS to try to find the setting DSTM refers to - a good number of laptops allow you to change the SATA mode. If that feature isn't available on your machine its going to take some work to get XP installed. You need the Intel SATA driver, which I have linked to below, you need a USB floppy drive if you don't have a built in one, or you need to be able to slipstream the SATA driver into the XP install CD. The slipstream option is perhaps not for this forum as it generally considered against the rules to tinker with the MS XP CD. The way to install with floppy is to copy the SATA driver to floppy, then boot from the XP CD, and whilst setup is in progress press F6 to install and extra driver, pointing it to your floppy drive. That way, Windows will see your drive. Here is a tutorial Repair Windows XP - Press F6 to Install a Third Party Driver SATA Driver http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=17412&lang=eng Quote
whitpit Posted December 10, 2010 Author Posted December 10, 2010 Go through the BIOS to try to find the setting DSTM refers to - a good number of laptops allow you to change the SATA mode. If that feature isn't available on your machine its going to take some work to get XP installed. You need the Intel SATA driver, which I have linked to below, you need a USB floppy drive if you don't have a built in one, or you need to be able to slipstream the SATA driver into the XP install CD. The slipstream option is perhaps not for this forum as it generally considered against the rules to tinker with the MS XP CD. The way to install with floppy is to copy the SATA driver to floppy, then boot from the XP CD, and whilst setup is in progress press F6 to install and extra driver, pointing it to your floppy drive. That way, Windows will see your drive. Here is a tutorial Repair Windows XP - Press F6 to Install a Third Party Driver SATA Driver http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=17412&lang=eng Many thanks, you are a legend!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote
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