Mekkahfire

At boot setup, its telling me that "There were no hard disks found on your system to install on"

What the hell!!! Someone help, i F'ing hate Vista

LiNERROR

hdd/raid drivers loaded?

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doitallman

are you trying to go back to xp?

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Mekkahfire

No i bought a dual 1.6/2gb ram laptop with Vista preinstalled, and im pretty much sure it sucks. Nothing that i NEED will install.

Im not sure how to install raid drivers??

LiNERROR

care to share the make and model number?

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doitallman

right..... some sys info would be helpful

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Mekkahfire

HP DV6265US

Processor
Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology featuring Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5500; 1.66GHz

Operating system
Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium

Memory
2048MB DDR2 SDRAM

Graphics card
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 with up to 256MB (shared video memory)

Hard drive
160GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive [gigabyte is defined as 1,000,000,000 bytes, accessible capacity may vary]

Primary CD/DVD drive
LightScribe Super Multi 8x DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support

Display
15.4" WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen (1280x800) Display

Wireless connectivity
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection

Digital media
5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, or xD Picture cards

External ports
3 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 2 Headphone out - 1 w/SPDIF Digital Audio & 1 stereo 1 microphone-in 1 notebook expansion port 3 1 IEEE 1394 Firewire (4-pin) 1 Consumer IR

Communications
Integrated 10/100 Base-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector); high speed 56k modem

Dimensions
14.05" (L) x 10.12" (W) x 1" (min H)/1.69" (max H)

Weight 6.09 lb.

Sound
Internal Altec Lansing Speakers

Finish and Features HP Imprint Finish & HP Pavilion WebCam with Integrated Microphone

Sidious

You may need SATA drivers for the harddrive to work. I know when I installed XP onto my 160GB sata, I needed a floppy to get the XP to see my harddrive (you press F6 at start up to load the drivers.)

The motherboard CD has a util on it of you exlore it to make this floppy disk!

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