I forgot the password for my laptop which has windows Xp pro installed on it,
when i tried to reinstall windows it gives me an error "setup did not find
any hard disk drives installed in your computer"
Please help!

May be because you have a sata controler and need to install the sata/raid
drivers from floppy, via F6 option early in the installation process to add
third party drivers
The drivers should be avilable from your Laptop site, or with disks
supplied. If on a cd there is usually a 'make floppy' option to extract the
drivers to floppy

"poli" <poli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I forgot the password for my laptop which has windows Xp pro installed on
>it,
> when i tried to reinstall windows it gives me an error "setup did not find
> any hard disk drives installed in your computer"
> Please help!

"poli" <poli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:87FBEB6B-9C10-49F4-817C-FE3DF732FC2F@microsoft.com...
>I forgot the password for my laptop which has windows Xp pro installed on it,
> when i tried to reinstall windows it gives me an error "setup did not find
> any hard disk drives installed in your computer"
> Please help!

There are less drastic approaches you can take before having to resort to
reinstalling XP. Try these first.

Have you tried logging on with the built-in Administrator account and going to
Control Panel -> User Accounts to reset the password for your account? To logon
with the Administrator account in XP Pro, do the following.

If the Welcome screen is displayed, hit the Ctrl + Alt + Del key combination
twice.
This should bring up the Log on to Windows dialog.
Enter Administrator in the User Name box.
If you set up a password for this account, enter it now. Otherwise, leave the
password box blank.

If you're still locked out of your computer, take a look at these web sites for
information on creating a bootable CD that will let you reset passwords.

Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Ultimate Boot CD for Windows®
http://www.ubcd4win.com/howto.htm

Note: The reason you're getting that error message is probably due to the fact
that your laptop has an SATA hard drive. In order to install XP on your
computer, you need to provide drivers for your the SATA controller on your
laptop's motherboard on a floppy disk early in the installation process. Look
for a notice on the bottom the screen to hit F6.

Good luck

Nepatsfan