Windows XP Clean install cannot find harddrive – help?
I installed Fedora, and now wish to uninstall Grub boot loader. The only way I can do that is with a windows XP CD and using the recovery console, I ask my friend and he lent his copy of XP. Once I get to the blue screen where it asks for options, I press recovery console, and then a screen appears stating hard drive cannot be detected… anybody knows how to fix this?
PC hardware:
Compaq Presario Notebook C306US
Operating Systems: Windows XP Media Center and Fedora Core 7
Harddrive: Seagate ST98823AS 80GB 5400RPM 2.5" Sata Laptop Hard Drive
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You will need the SATA Drivers for your PC.
You can get it from this site:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-39535-1&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3253904&os=228&lang=en
More then likely you don’t have 3.5" floppy on your computer so you will need to by a external USB floppy drive. Your C306US should have legacy support so the drive should work in the XP install.
Here is what you’ll have to do step by step to do this:
1) Download the SATA driver and extract the files to a 3.5" floppy Drive
2) Place the XP CD in your CD/DVD-ROM drive
3) Restart your computer
4) Press F12 to select the CD as the boot device
5) Press any key for the XP CD to boot
6) Press F6 when promped to
7) Press the S key when promped to
after this you will be able to delete the Fedora Partition and remove the GRUB loader