Resolving "Setup did not find any hard disk drives" during Windows XP Installation

One of the most popular discussion among the readers is about the installing of windows xp on your new windows vista computer, sometimes for compatibility reasons and most of all people doesn’t like windows vista. The problem keep running on the vista while installing the windows xp and getting message” Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer”. This error happens due to that your new computer has a storage controller which isn’t in your windows xp, usually an SATA (Serial ATA).if you don’t have disk drive in your computer then you have to use a method named slip streaming in order to integrate storage drive in your windows xp installation cd.

For the custom installation of the windows xp we need a software called nLite, you should have download this software and install it before the installation of the windows xp.nLite will copy all the necessary files of the windows xp into a temporary folder and when this copying will complete you would able to see on which version it is.nLite will let you know with the bundle of updates and automatically remove the component from your installation but this step is far away from this article.

The best place for searching the drivers for your hardware is at manufacturer’s support website. All the manufacturers distribute their drivers in floppy disk. The only problem is to how these drivers are extracted. For this purpose an application named as winImage is used. There are few steps including the extraction of files are: you can use winImage and winrar to extract these files, After extracting these files you can get a *.flp file and some drivers will also extract these files automatically in your directory.