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

[qtsoca]

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?

[mechbas]

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?

[osama_b]

sure jumper !!! master or slave.

[rigedor]

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?