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Hi,
Hope someone can help.
I've just bought a Dimension 8400 and immediately set about reinstalling Win
XP to get rid of the dross that Dell bundled with the unit.
I get as far as the "to set up Windows on this pc hit ENTER" screen but when
I do it comes back with "Setup could not find any hard disks on this
machine".
There is a 160gb Maxtor hard drive installed and the BIOS can see it. It's
properly set up and configured so that isn't the problem.
The Dell manual is next to useless, doing what all manuals do insofar as
guiding you through what *should* happen and not what *usually does* happen.
I thought it might have something to do with hitting F6 once Setup got going
(install third party RAID drivers) but that just ends up asking me to insert
a floppy into drive a:
What's going on here?
Help!!
Hi,
Hope someone can help.
I've just bought a Dimension 8400 and immediately set about reinstalling Win
XP to get rid of the dross that Dell bundled with the unit.
I get as far as the "to set up Windows on this pc hit ENTER" screen but when
I do it comes back with "Setup could not find any hard disks on this
machine".
There is a 160gb Maxtor hard drive installed and the BIOS can see it. It's
properly set up and configured so that isn't the problem.
The Dell manual is next to useless, doing what all manuals do insofar as
guiding you through what *should* happen and not what *usually does* happen.
I thought it might have something to do with hitting F6 once Setup got going
(install third party RAID drivers) but that just ends up asking me to insert
a floppy into drive a:
What's going on here?
Help!!