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zshan000 · 21-12-2006

i having problem installing xp in my new laptop. when i boot from xp cd it says no hard drive dectected......hard drive is 80gb.so i am able to run fdisk...as its only detecting 10 gb...and if i format hard drive after using fdisk....my c drive show 80 gb space but i want partition...so how can i do that ?
using partition manager or dm 9?
is there any way to detect hard (i mean space) from bios ???

sys spec
HP 1.7gh dual core1 ,512mb ram,80gb hard.

21-12-2006	#1 (permalink)
zshan000 CD Freaks Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: lahore(pakistan) Posts: 155	installing and partition new laptop hard drive i having problem installing xp in my new laptop. when i boot from xp cd it says no hard drive dectected......hard drive is 80gb.so i am able to run fdisk...as its only detecting 10 gb...and if i format hard drive after using fdisk....my c drive show 80 gb space but i want partition...so how can i do that ? using partition manager or dm 9? is there any way to detect hard (i mean space) from bios ??? sys spec HP 1.7gh dual core1 ,512mb ram,80gb hard.