Hi! I can't help you with your real problem, but I might give you a clue on
the way:

I think that when you boot from a boot diskette (floppy) or from a bootable
CD, then that boot procedure will create one or two disk drives (e.g. the
diskette itself, and a RAM-drive for tools). To find your hard disk you
should try looking for some other drive letter, e.g. e: or f:.

HTH!
Goran Halfvarson, Sweden
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
| [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Trang Tran
| Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 2:00 AM
| To: [log in to unmask]
| Subject: [PCBUILD] I need serious help with Windows XP installation
|
|
| I did not follow the saying "Leave the well enough
| alone". I recently bought a DELL laptop without the
| 56K modem. I bought and installed the modem later
| which never connected faster than 16 kbps. I thought I
| had screwed up something in the modem installation
| process. I went ahead to partition my hard drive as
| one big partition and re-format it. No problem here.
|
| I noticed one thing, when I started the PC with the
| boot floppy in the A:\ drive and selected "Boot with
| CD-ROM drive supported", the boot went alright. I also
| noticed the message "Diagnostic tools were
| successfully loaded to D drive". I also was able to
| switch to drive D. I was not able to run setup from
| Windows XP though. All I saw was pretty much all the
| diagnostic files that I mentioned earlier.

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