I'VE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FORMATT MY LAPTOP(HP520) AND IT KEEPS TELLING ME MY HARD DRIVE CANT BE FOUND.

PLEASE YOU GUYS  SHOULD ASSIST ME ON THIS.

I  WILL REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

Say it like this make bois understand u:
i am using an HP pavillion 1000 that came with windows vista, and i am tryin to format it with windows xp, and
an error report of cannot find hard disk keeps showing after i boot with the xp cd. . .

check the harddrive if it is properly connected,if it is.check the harddrive cable.If there is no solution.**THE HARDDRIVE IS BAD**

like dhtml said u need to be clearer. . .also u cld add why you want to format your computer(if you're OS is original why replace it with a pirated one? u're just inviting WGA wahala).

@ Poster,
Had similar problem sometime last year but found a solution to it. It goes thus; Your Hard drive is set to "sata support enabled" which has made it invisible to windows XP. what you have to do is go to your CMOS setup prompt and disable the sata support option, save your setting and exit, shekinah! you are good to go!!

thats cos u have a sata hard disk & ur prolly installing xp which is why its telling u that

the easiest thing to do is install xp service pack 3 which will recognize the sata hard disk

the others method are long & complicated

@wrex001
Thank you so much.
I just did what you recommended and it worked.

And i also thank all other guys who contributed to this thread.

una too much!!!

Good to know it worked for you man. One love, Things dey happen!!! lol, but that method did not work on Sony Vaio because Sony Vaio doesnt have the sata enabled option in the CMOS setup. so that one is another route, I found solution for that too, so feel free to holla whenever the need arise!
Cheers!!

I susepected the problem has to do with SATA option from the start, that was what my post was directed towards.
But i also know there are some other problems that may occur which is not sata related, but since the poster
was not detailed enough, i chose to cross my fingers, and i am sure others like netose knows this too. . .
Anyway, since you have solved your problem, then that is it. But next time, be more detailed so that you get your
solution by say, the next post. This is a common everyday problem though.

No no no guys, hp pavilion always come up with that error most especially when light always go off from the laptop. It happened to me twice and the problem is from the hard drive. Get another one and problem solved. Now that the poster said, the problem has been solved, that means his question is really wrong but to God be the glory, it works.

Eebrahym:

No no no guys, hp pavilion always come up with that error most especially when light always go off from the laptop. It happened to me twice and the problem is from the hard drive. Get another one and problem solved. Now that the poster said, the problem has been solved, that means his question is really wrong but to God be the glory, it works.

ah ah ah ah, Always read previous post before posting a comment. The problem has already been solved!

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