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hi ive been currently formating an acer extensa 5620z and windows xp would not detect a hard drive to install on? so i tried fdisk from a windows 98 disk and deleted all the partitions, this was before i found out about the alt f10 at startup to restore factory settings now im stuck with a laptop that cant detect the hard drive or use alt f10 to restore can you help??

Submitted: 154 days ago.
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Computer OS: Windows XP
Browser: IE

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inserting and booting from cd to install a new copy of xp - would not detect the hard drive to install on -then i tried fdisk tool to delete partitions now i cant do anything with it

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Hi,

Go into your BIOS

Look for a setting in the menus for SATA mode. There should be a compatibility mode or something similar that will allow the XP Setup to see your SATA hard drive without needing specific drivers.

Rob

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Expert: Robert Preston
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Answered: 10/12/2009

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champion ;)

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