Go to BIOS Setup. Most BIOSes have an option to disable AHCI and choose normal SATA mode. Windows Vista might work. WIndows XP will not have AHCI Driver.
sham pavman wrote: > Hi all, > > My friend recently bought a Gateway laptop from US(Vista preloaded) > And thanks to its amazing compatibility with various other app SWs ,we > decided to change over to xp. > Here starts our endeavor! > Upon reaching the screen where we should choose HD partition to > install xp, we get this message > "No hard-disk detected ,please ensure that the hard-disk is powered up > and retry" (The laptop was not running on batt) > Even after repeated trials this was as far as we could go. > > I thought this could be some notoriously strange issue with security > that Gateway might have; So had this idea of installing solaris > ,wiping out the entire HD ,then get back to installing xp. (could be a > Vista issue) > But,there was a surprise in store for us ,even with solaris! > We got the same error message here as well!!! > How is it possible? > My guess, there is some sort of hardware security thats been > integrated thats preventing us from installing anything other than the > stock fit! > Is there anyway to counter this issue! > oddly enough i would really like to know if anyone else has faced > similar issues! > > Regards > Shampavman > blogs.sun.com/sham <http://blogs.sun.com/sham> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54
