Unalbe to find hard disc while booting

[-={MINDFREAK}=-]

hello friends,
today my friend gave me his laptop (hp 520) for formating. When i insert windows xp cd & booting from it after that i enter into setup it shows me furthur error that setup did not find any hard disc drives. I am attaching a image of the error & hope will get sollution asap.




Regards,
MINDFREAK

-={MINDFREAK}=- Reviewed by -={MINDFREAK}=- on 27th Jul 2011. Unalbe to find hard disc while booting hello friends, today my friend gave me his laptop (hp 520) for formating. When i insert windows xp cd & booting from it after that i enter into setup it shows me furthur error that setup did not find any hard disc drives. I am attaching a image of the error & hope will get sollution asap. http://www.leetleech.org/images/80456922167922438061_thumb.png Regards, MINDFREAK Rating: 5

[Arvendu]

there's a SATA native mode
check if it is enable

try to disable it

[Smarti1]

Well, It Seems that the HDD cable is Unplugged or loose, If You are Able to fix the HDD cables (in Laptop case" Its a bit of risky & hard) so do so, unless Contact to your Nearest Hardware Store.

[Garfield2]

try to disable SATA mode in BIOS.

[Arvendu]

Well, It Seems that the HDD cable is Unplugged or loose, If You are Able to fix the HDD cables (in Laptop case" Its a bit of risky & hard) so do so, unless Contact to your Nearest Hardware Store.

EPiC
thanks

[elvyn]

check out in BIOS to see if there's the hard drive.
if it's not, better take the laptop to HP,
if yes, then probably the disk drive isn't correctly installed/format. better use winpe toolkit cd with diskmanager to format.
good luck.

[-={MINDFREAK}=-]

@Arvendu & Garfield2
Thanks a ton guys........yup you were correct that sata native mode was enabled in bios. Now i have disabled that function & problem fixed now but what is that function actually & why we need to disable it?

[Garfield2]

may be u using old XP CD which not supports SATA HDD. if u want to enable SATA mode download latest windows XP SP3 with SATA drivers install it

[Arvendu]

ur welcome

It is highly likely that you will not be able to control your computers ability to handle SATA drives if the manufacturer of the computer and its BIOS have determined that they DO NOT WANT YOU TO install an alternative operating system other than the one supplied with the computer.

[-={MINDFREAK}=-]

@Arvendu & Garfield2
Thanks for the information