Reformatted drive, cant reinstall

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Reformatted drive, cant reinstall

#1 Post by shamus » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:34 pm

Hi

Ok, here is the situation.

My friend has a thinkpad Z61t, it had been all sorts of corrupted, virus laden, etc. She asked me to reinstall XP on it, get a fresh start. I wasnt able to install by booting from CD, it gave me an error saying there were no harddrives on the laptop.

I used some third party software to delete the current partition, so right now it is just a 93GB empty space.

I'm getting the same error message trying to install from a factory XP installation cd. I believe it is the driver/software for the hard drive....

Does anyone know what i can do to reinstall XP on this thinkpad?

Any help is very much appreciated.
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#2 Post by ryengineer » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:51 pm

You need to switch HDD settings from SATA AHCI to Compatibility mode in the BIOS 1st.
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#3 Post by shamus » Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:05 pm

ah, thanks! it worked.
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