uneasyrider
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My wife has an Asus 1000HE netbook that came with Windows XP. I convinced her to let me install Windows 7 for her. I did a clean install of Windows 7 and she ran with it for a while. Things were going swimmingly and it was working perfect. Much to my chagrin, she just isn't ready for the change yet... and all but begged me to put Windows XP back on there for her.
So tonight I hooked up the external CD drive and prepared to reinstall Windows XP. The disc reads fine and loads into the standard loading blue screen that XP loads when it boots off of the CD. When it gets to the point where it prepares the drives though... I get a screen that says 'No hard drives could be detected on your computer'. The only option I have is to hit F3 to reboot. Same thing happens every time.
I know nothing is wrong with the drive, because if I don't boot off of the CD, Windows 7 loads up business as usual.
I guess I'm wondering if Windows 7 didn't install some funky partition that the Windows XP CD setup can't read??
Do I need to take the drive out and try to repartition it using it as a secondary drive (not something I want to attempt, opening a netbook)?? Or create some sort of bootable CD or USB drive that will allow a repartition??
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
So tonight I hooked up the external CD drive and prepared to reinstall Windows XP. The disc reads fine and loads into the standard loading blue screen that XP loads when it boots off of the CD. When it gets to the point where it prepares the drives though... I get a screen that says 'No hard drives could be detected on your computer'. The only option I have is to hit F3 to reboot. Same thing happens every time.
I know nothing is wrong with the drive, because if I don't boot off of the CD, Windows 7 loads up business as usual.
I guess I'm wondering if Windows 7 didn't install some funky partition that the Windows XP CD setup can't read??
Do I need to take the drive out and try to repartition it using it as a secondary drive (not something I want to attempt, opening a netbook)?? Or create some sort of bootable CD or USB drive that will allow a repartition??
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.