Reformatted drive, cant reinstall

[shamus]

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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