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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack_Sparrow" data-source="post: 8272972" data-attributes="member: 106688">Resolving "Setup did not find any hard disk drives" during Windows XP Installation                                                                                                                                        One of the most popular topics among our readers is installing Windows XP on your new Windows Vista computer – sometimes for compatibility reasons, but also because a lot of people just don’t like Vista very much. The problem that people keep running into left and right is getting  to the point where XP starts to install and getting the message “Setup  did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer”. This  error happens because your new computer has a storage controller that  isn’t supported natively in XP, usually an SATA (Serial ATA) controller. <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/setup-did-not-find-any-hard-disk-drives.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> If you don’t have a floppy drive in your computer (who does anymore),  then you’ll need to use a process called slip-streaming to integrate  the storage drivers into your XP installation CD. It should go without saying that this is an advanced topic, so proceed with caution. Creating a Custom XP Install We’ll use a software called nLite  to create a new XP install cd, so you’ll first need to download and  install it. Once it starts up, you’ll be prompted for your Windows  installation, so you’ll want to click the Browse button. <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image4.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> First you’ll be prompted for the “Windows installation”, which really  means your XP install CD. Find it and select the root of the  installation, and then click OK to go to the next dialog. <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image5.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Next you’ll be prompted on where you want to save the temporary files  used during the slip-streaming process. I chose to create a new  directory and called it XPISO, but you can put it wherever you’d like. I  just recommend to use a new directory. <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image6.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> nLite will copy all the necessary files off the XP installation and  into the temporary folder. When it’s done, you’ll see all the  information on which version it is. <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image7.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image8.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Hit the next button until you come to this screen, where you can  select what options you want. Select “Drivers” and then “Bootable ISO”. <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image9.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Side note: You can select any of the other options if you’d like.  nLite will let you bundle updates, set tweaks or automatically remove  components from the installation, but that all goes beyond the scope of  this article. Hit the next button until you get to the screen for selecting  drivers. If you click the Insert button, you can choose between adding a  single driver or adding a folder of drivers. Since we’ll just be  loading a single driver, you can choose that option, but you might want  to first read the section below about finding drivers for XP. <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image10.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image11.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   Browse to the directory where you extracted the driver files, and  then select Open. Note that it doesn’t really matter which of the *.inf  files you choose, because it will select all files in the folder anyway. <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image12.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   nLite will prompt you to select your driver. If you don’t know which  exact one it is, you can either use Device Manager in Vista to find the  exact model, or you can just select all of them. Just be careful not to  select a 64-bit driver if you are using 32-bit, or the wrong OS  version. <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image13.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> I would recommend including both Storage and Network drivers, as those are the most common drivers that are missing in XP. <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image14.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Once you proceed to the next screen, now we can finally finish the  process. You can choose to directly burn the cd here, or you can select  Create Image to create an ISO file that you can burn to a CD using  whatever burning tool you have. Note: If you chose to create an ISO, make sure to use the “Make ISO” button before you click Next. <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image15.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image16.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />       At this point you can burn the ISO image to a CD, and then start your XP installation process. Finding Drivers for XP The best place to search for drivers for your hardware is at the  manufacturer’s support website. The only problem is that almost every  manufacturer seems to distribute their drivers in floppy disk image  form, even though the computer they are for doesn’t have a floppy drive.  Guess nobody has alerted them to get with the program. We can still extract the drivers using an application called WinImage. Let’s run through a quick example… Here you can see the Intel SATA controller driver for my HP computer. <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image17.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> I downloaded and ran the executable, which extracted a file called  f6flpy32.exe into a temporary directory. Don’t bother trying to run this  one, because it’ll just prompt you for a floppy drive. <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image18.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> So how to get the drivers out of this file? There are a few options  that you can try, depending on how the manufacturer packed the files. <ul style="text-align: center"> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You can use Winimage to extract them, which is a shareware software, but you can use it during the trial period for free.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You can try and use WinRar to extract the file. In many instances  this will extract a *.flp file, which you can mount in a VMware virtual  machine or potentially with some ISO mounting software.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some drivers will allow you to automatically extract into a directory. You’ll have to try it and see what happens.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Other methods? If you’ve got other ideas, leave them in the comments and I’ll add them to this list.</li> </ul> Here’s the list of files that Winimage can handle, which is quite a lot. <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image19.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Start WinImage and then open the file, and you should see the  contents. Just extract them to a folder, preferably with a useful name  so you can remember it later. <img src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/image20.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> source:: <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/resolving-setup-did-not-find-any-hard-disk-drives-during-windows-xp-installation/" target="_blank">http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/resolving-setup-did-not-find-any-hard-disk-drives-during-windows-xp-installation/</a></blockquote>

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