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I just recently bought a used HP DV9000 laptop but it came with a Vista Home edition. Im trying to install my copy of XP but after I boot from disc it tells me that it cant install XP because no HDD can be found......I.do not know anything about vista, BTW it has sata hd, is this a vista problem or a sata problem? thanks for your help
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Hi welcome to PCHF you will need to go to HP and download the SATA driver and put it on a floppy and do this Limited OEM driver support is available with F6 during Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 setup


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no floppy drive but I will check ms website for options! thank you
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check if you need to press F6 to install SATA drivers when installing XP
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F6 wasnt gonna help since I had no floppy drive to load drivers. Turns out I needed to disable sata drive sopport in bios! THANKS FOR THE RESPONSE
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