Hi all,

In fact this is not MY problem. I am just asking for the sake of curiosity. Some days ago, one of my friends came in asking for helping him repairing his Windows XP. After looking at the pitiable condition the machine was in, I asked if there was some important data in the machine. Getting a negative answer, I inserted the Windows CD that the guy had. To my surprise, the Windows setup said that No hard disk was found on the system.

It was damn sure to have a hard disk! SO I though I could do some cross check with Linux. To my surprise, Linux didn't say anything as such and installed with ease. The guy is happy to have his computer doing at least SOME work. But since, he is not a power user, Linux is quite tough for him.

After searching a BIT (it din't take me a BYTE ) on Google,. I found one guy saying that disabling SATA had worked for him. I did the same and the result was positive. But the performace was So low.... it is almost pitiable to start the machine. Ultimately I had to reenable SATA and reinstall Linux.

Can someone tell me : Why afterall enableing SATA in BIOS makes Windows XP setup detect no Hard disk at all?