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Seagate Momentus 5400.3 160gb / XP Pro Cannot Find Hard drive

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Seagate Momentus 5400.3 160gb / XP Pro Cannot Find Hard drive

Mar 15th, 2007

I purchased a new laptop, that came pre loaded with Vista, I need to revert back to xp professional. I have the full versioin of xp professional service pack to ... and when booting from cd to install I get "cannot find hard drive"

Hard Drive Momentus 5400.3 160 gb

I know this has to do with some kind of driver ....

any advice?

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Re: Seagate Momentus 5400.3 160gb / XP Pro Cannot Find Hard drive

Apr 9th, 2007

this is the type of error that you get when the drive is setup for NTFS. if so the drive will have to be FDISK'd to a FAT32 partition. Then you should be able to install XP.
I assume that you have the means to reload VISTA, when you change your mind?

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Re: Seagate Momentus 5400.3 160gb / XP Pro Cannot Find Hard drive

Apr 21st, 2007

sure jumper !!! master or slave.

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Re: Seagate Momentus 5400.3 160gb / XP Pro Cannot Find Hard drive

Sep 29th, 2009

yup either this or go down load the recovery disk from the manufacturer...
I am also having the same problem.

Times like this i am Missing my floppy drive as i have a dos boot disk and then i can do lots more.... anyone have a dos boot file on usb?