[pchelpers] Re: Funny windows install message

John I hope the info on this page below can be modified for your use or 
at least give you a clue as to where to go from here.
http://www.windowsxphome.windowsreinstall.com/nohdd/indexfullpage.htm

John Durham wrote:
> I am fixing a PC for a man who has done no maintenance on his system 
> since it was bought. Instead he ran it to a standstill and asked me to 
> fix it.
>
> To make a long story short, I have booted from floppy, reinitialized the 
> hard drive, formated part of it under W98 in DOS mode.
>
> After rebooting with the windows CD there is a message that reads: 
> "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer etc".
> The drive is showing up in BIOS and accessible from DOS. I would 
> appreciate some insight on this. Am I losing it or what?
>   




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