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Duh! I rechecked the setup which showed the hard drive first, then CDROM.
But, there was no number beside the HDD, so it had been disabled. I
selected the HDD, voila! it now boots properly. My bad! and thanks for your
help.
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Derek Buchanan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Russ,
> One question, is the drive inside the laptop SATA or IDE? If it is
> SATA, that driver did not come with XP. I found that out the hard way
> doing an image for some IBM laptops for my job. If I booted with the XP
> install disc and did the install, all was well. When I rebooted, no hard
> drive found. I used a USB floppy with a SATA driver to troubleshoot and
> sure enough, I could boot with the disk providing the SATA driver.
>
> There is a way around it though. Download the SATA driver from the
> Dell support site. (You should have a service tag on the laptop to put
> in.) From there, get a program called Nlite at http://www.nliteos.com/.
> You will need to provide the Windows CD for the install files. What it
> does is give a windows install CD that slipstreams the SATA driver in and
> it gets installed with the OS. (In short, the hard drive access will
> actually stay.)
>
> hope that helps,
> Derek
>
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