want to install vista. During xp format the cd will not detect my drive cant format

nykionnykion
edited June 2007 in Hardware
I am running xp pro and want to format my hard drive and install vista home premium. when i go to format my hard drive it says disk not detected. any help here would be awesome.

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  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited June 2007
    Do you have the hard drive on an ATA or S-ATA port?
  • nykionnykion
    edited June 2007
    Not 10 min ago I figured out what the problem was. :) I needed to make a boot disk using my motherboards drivers. This allowed me to install them. Had I continued to try to install XP I would not have been able to do so because I dont have an A: drive. But Vista lets me use a CD rom as a boot source. So long story short all is well.

    Thank you for at least responding though!!! It took me over 10 hours across 4 days to figure out the problem.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited June 2007
    It took me over 10 hours across 4 days to figure out the problem.
    All of us do-it-yourself computer types have experienced that! Still doesn't make it any fun, though.

    Glad you got it sorted.
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