Re: Windows Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed.....

I had a similar problem..

Our RIS server has been operating beautifully. However, on a new bit of
kit we recently got in (an IBM X60s laptop) the Windows text-based
setup would report that it could not find any hard disks. Suspecting
that it was something to do with the fact that this machine was the
first to adopt the serial ATA controller standard, I went into BIOS on
the machine, and found a setting to change - I changed the mode of the
Disk controller to "compatible". This got around the problem and
Windows installed and detected the disk just fine.

Maybe (hopefully) there is a similar setting in most BIOSes that will
allow switching the mode on the disk controller.

rgds,

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