Comments on: Install XP: Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer

By: Wakoko

Wakoko — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:46:00 +0000

Where can i get the SATA RAID Driver, Please help me Thanks GODBLESS!

By: Cleo Lee

Cleo Lee — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:25:00 +0000

Thanks man! I solved this by disabling the SATA. I hate the earlier hdd + mobo cos always have this ide sata issue. Thanks for your tips anyway! Very useful! I can finally install windows now as it eventually detected the hard drives. Thank god!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:31:00 +0000

My problem, and I suspect many others, diverges from your explanations at your very first sentence “you have SATA hard drive and you have RAID/SATA mode configured in BIOS”. I have a HP xw6400, which supports SAS, and has a SAS hard drive connected to a “LSI SAS3041e-HP” card. I am trying to install XP, which does not support SAS. I have no problem with SATA drives, and drivers for the LSI card are readily available, from the HP website and elsewhere. The problem is in trying to load drivers when XP says you have no hard drive, and cannot continue loading.

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:03:22 +0000

hey so i keep trying to do it with the floppy disk and everything seems to be going okay i load up two of the files i need but in the end it still says no hard disk drives were detected can anyone help
oh its an nvidia if it helps to know

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:09:53 +0000

Ayars, they talk about this problem here -> http://www.delltechcenter.com/thread/4749520/OptiPlex+390+Mass+Storage+Driver

By: Ayars

Ayars — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:56:01 +0000

Hi, I had the same problem when installing Windows Xp to Dell Optiplex 390 Series . It doesn’t find hard disk driver to install windows.Can anybody please tell me a place to download it? Or a solution to this.

By: David

David — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:10:54 +0000

YOU ROCK !!!!!!!! I spent hours trying to fix this stupid thing. THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH