[SpecV]

i just got a laptop from my brother because it was cheap and fairly fast. Anyways, its a Gateway laptop and i want to reformat it to clear all the preloaded junk on it. Everytime i put in the Xp disk and get to the "welcome to setup" screen, once i select "to set up windows..." the next screen says there is no hard disk drives installed on my computer.
setup cannot continue....

wtf! it wont let me reformat it. anyone know how to get me rolling?

i dont have the recovery disk and i dont really want to use it because it will reinstall all the junk i dont want. i just want a completely blank computer with xp. i can install all the drivers myself!!!.

[SpecV]

also i forgot to add

when i just try to start up windows, it says PXE-E61 media test failure, check cable.
Operating system not found.

i understand that pxe-e61 means that the comp is trying to boot from a network correct? i checked the boot settings and it says HD as first and disk/cd as second so im not sure what the problem is.

i know there is windows on it as i was using it earlier. just all of sudden i get this message and i cant reformat it like i want to.

[SpecV]

since i cant seem to edit my previous posts ill just keep posting new ones.

anyways, i searched around and i found this thread.
http://www.thecomputerforums.co.uk/f...blem-hdd-6072/

basically the same problem. now im not sure hot to slipstream the xp disk with the SATA drivers. i have a AMD processor, not intel so do i need and AMD SATA driver? or will intel SATA driver be fine?

[zerocool]

You need the sata driver for the motherboard that is inside your laptop, find out what motherboard you have and download the sata drivers from the manufacturers website