i am not sure but you can always try ans see what happens, i have checked a lot of sites and forums and this method looks to be the best way,...

ok so normally when you try and setup from the xp cd and you have a sata disk, the setup wil tell you that it can not find a hdd on the system,so do you actually get to the pointwhere it does ask...

i have haad the same problem with torrents, so i started using Utorrent 1.61 and it worked, so hopefully it will work for you aswell

Hi there! When does it give you the message that there is no hard drive ? Are you booting from your Xp cd?? I would suggest you do this as from in windows vista!! Is it a sata or ide drive??

Hi there, have a look at Hiren.s boot cd at www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd , it has a great active password remover and the latest 9.3 version does support vista, i use it almost every day with clients...