Setup Did Not find any Hard Disk...

[vroom_skies]

"Setup Did Not find any Hard Disk drives installed"

That's the issue I'm getting when trying to reformat my Lenovo T61.
Dare I say it's lying since I can boot into Windows just fine.

Only two issues I can think of would be:
- Bios not up to date, which I have since flashed.
- Sata drivers needed for HDD. Went looking for these, yet I can't find any giving out by Hitachi. They say all drivers should already be incorporated.

The drive is a Hitachi hts722010k9sa00:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145181

Have tried both booting from both a XP SP1 & SP3 CD's.

Any help would be great.

Thanks,
Bob

 

[nitrobass24]

You need Sata controller drivers, not SATA hdd drivers

Go to the Lenovo site and look for SATA controller and chipset drivers.
Slipstream those.
Then try.

OR

get Vista

 

[thefordmccord]

You could also look in the BIOS and see if you can set the SATA controller to legacy mode.

 

[vroom_skies]

In the words of daffy duck, how embarrassing.
Thanks for the help you two.

Thanks
Bob