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

[Troy W. Banther]

Does he have the original install CDs? There may or may not be a  
single or set of restore CDs to work from.

On Dec 10, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Patrick Green wrote:

> 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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