Dave wrote:

> Good Afternoon,
>
> I just purchased a "LG S1 Pro Express Dual" with a German installation of
> Windows XP Media Center, and I am trying to install a fresh installation
> of Windows XP Professional (English version).
> The Windows Setup is giving me the error "...setup did not find any hard
> disk drives installed on your computer..."
> I searched for this error on the Internet and I found out that I should
> install the Intel SATA Controller drivers from the F6 menu of the Windows
> XP Setup.
> I searched and dowloaded what I think are the correct drivers from the
> following location:
>
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...ional&lang=eng
>
> After downloading the drivers I re-tried to install Windows XP, by
> pressing F6 to install the drivers (using my External Floppy Drive). The
> drivers got installed correctly, but I get the same error again when the
> installation of Windows XP begins.
>
> Does anyone know what I should try next?
> OR
> Did anyone have the same error in the past and managed to fix it?
>
> Thanks!

even despite the fact that is showing in the first part of the winxp setup
routine an external floppy drive on USB is not recognized or mounted when
the winXP setup continues

therefor the drivers cannot be loaded and the setup will fail
I have tried this several times on several pc's and it never worked

I still can't figure out why this functionality was not included when winxp
was still in beta but that's the way it is

all you can do is hook up an internal floppy drive, maybe borrow one from a
friend or so?

you are in luck when you can set the sata controller compatibility mode from
within the BIOS, that way winxp sees the sata drive as a 'normal' drive

or you could add the sata drivers to the install media
look here on how to: <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314479>

grtz