Help! My Hard Disk can't be located using XP but with Vista it can.

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Help! My Hard Disk can't be located using XP but with Vista it can.

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Started 2 months ago by Ramski
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Ramski

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Hi. any fellow can help me with my problem? I have a laptop HP 6510b which I have difficulty in installing XP because it can't find the hard disk during installation but if i am going to use my Vista OS it can find my hard disk and I can install the OS.

When my laptop arrive it to me, at first, it was XP was installed. I installed Vista on it which eventually I do have dual OS boot. My problem occurred when I deleted my XP which then I would like to install a new version of XP.

Now, It was Vista was running on my Laptop and I can't find any hard disk when I try to install my XP.

Please help for ant fellows who had experienced this before.

Many thanks in advanced.

Posted 2 months ago #

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jd2066

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You need to get the SATA AHCI Driver for that model and either put it on a floppy disc for the setup or burn a Windows XP with it included, see http://www.howtogeek.com/howto.....tallation/ for how.

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