[Wftl-lug] Cannot install XP (yeah yeah, I know)

[Patrick Green]

Okay...I know.  Here is the story.  One student at CLC took the Linux
challenge since he does not like Vista.  So I removed Vista and Installed
Gutsy.  Well, he is not a big fan of that either.  So he goes to Wal Mart
and buys a copy of XP Pro.  Every time he tries to install it on his Sony
Laptop it tells him the hard drive cannot be found.  So I take it home with
me and I run gparted to delete the partitions.  I get the same error.
Okay...fine...run gparted again and partition as a FAT32....still no joy.
So I go into the R option of XP for repair and enter fixmbr.  And
still....nothing.   Now, I know BIOS recoignizes the hard drive and I can
get into it all day long with gparted or..welll...any live CD.  What am I
missing here?

End of the day I wish he liked the Ubuntu, but this is what he wants and I
am trying to help facilitate it...ideas?  BTW, Sony VAIO with Duo Centrino
4GB RAM...PCG-384L is the Sony model number.

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