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it looks like that you have a SATA drive, and window doesn't recognize some of sata controllers, you need to install sata drivers befor installing windows. while the drivers initialization, you are offered to press F6 and install SCSI of SATA drivers. you just press F6 insert floppy disk(it must be delivered with your motherboard) with drivers and install them

hey
i also have the same problem i have a fujitsu siemens M 1437G laptop. i tried to install xp but it said harddisk not found and i dont any floppy drive in my laptop and wen i insert the driver disk it goes to recovery optiion ..please help me

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Practical next steps for the "Hard Drive not found" symptom on the Fujitsu Siemens M1437G reported by . Two clear paths: verify whether the drive is physically present and usable, and if it is, make the Windows installer able to talk to the laptop's storage controller without relying on a floppy.

Start with hardware checks. As implied, look for any drive listing in the BIOS and boot a rescue or Linux live CD to see if the disk is visible outside of Windows setup. If the drive does not appear, remove and reseat the drive and its carrier, inspect the connector for damage, and try the drive on another machine using a USB-to-SATA adapter to rule out a failed disk or broken cable (this is the practical follow-up to ’s cable suggestion).

If the disk is healthy but the XP installer still cannot access it, avoid buying an external floppy by integrating the correct mass-storage driver into the installation media. On another PC copy your XP CD to a folder, obtain the laptop/chipset storage driver, extract the INF/SYS files (7-Zip often extracts vendor EXEs), and use a slipstream tool such as nLite to add the driver as a text-mode driver. Create and burn the new ISO; that installer will be able to detect the drive. As an alternative, build a small WinPE/BartPE disk with the driver so you can run setup or copy drivers into the install environment.

Final cautions: always use the exact chipset/vendor driver (wrong drivers can hang setup). The external floppy answer works, but slipstreaming or testing the drive externally is usually faster, cheaper, and more reliable.

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Is the BIOS finding your drive?

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Is the BIOS finding your drive?

i have two laptop same model and having the same problem there is no option in the bios where i can see whether the hard disk is detected but i had just installed windows98 on my laptop and wen i try to upgrade it shows some bluescreen with some error and halts.

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devil

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I dont think laptops have SATA drives (may be wrong though). If this is the case, it's possible the lappy's HD may have crashed or a cable may have come loose. Tighten the data and power cables and see if the drive is being detected...

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I dont think laptops have SATA drives (may be wrong though). If this is the case, it's possible the lappy's HD may have crashed or a cable may have come loose. Tighten the data and power cables and see if the drive is being detected...

hey
i have checked the hard disk is sata and i took my laptop to the shop they r that i need to buy a external floppy drive and copy the drivers to the floppy.then my hard disk will be detected ..

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