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To quit Setup without installing Windows, press F3. I pressed ENTER and another screen comes up immediately that says: Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disks are powered on and properly connected to your computer, and that any disk-related hardware configuration is correct.

This may involve running a manufacturer-supplied diagnostic or setup program. Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup, press F3. Does that mean the computer is not recognizing the hard drive? Does the hard drive need to be formatted? StrangleHold Moderator Staff member. Pop the side off and make sure it has a harddrive. If so make sure the power and data cable is attached. Sounds like you are trying to install XP and most likely the system is set for ahci mode and XP doesn't have native sata controller drivers.

Go into the bios and see if the system detects the HDD. That means it doesn't detect the hard drive. Either the drive is dead or power or data connection to the drive doesn't work.

When you turn the pc on do you hear the drive spin up? Yeah I can hear it. Is this an IDE or Sata drive? Try a different data cable. Also check the bios to see if the controller is enabled. Also, there has been one time that I have started up my computer and has come up with a System32 regestry error. Is that problem linked to the one previously stated or is something entirely different?

Also there has been attempts to where the boot doesn't even happen. Just stays at a blank screen. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I have been trying to open BIOS but the option is not given. Here recently it has been showing the. What could be the problem? Supermaine ,. It was trying to boot from the CD.

Set it to try the hard drive first. SpywareDr ,. Log in or Sign up to hide this advert. Is there a reason it would have changed by itself? I've had this computer for years, and have never entered the BIOS to change anything. Is there a way to know if this is the case? I've had to boot from a Windows Vista disc to recover my system before, if that's what you mean. Usually a failing battery will let you know by the date and time being wrong from a cold boot.

Wally World and Radio Shack have them. Only takes a couple of minutes to replace one if need be. I have a PC that is about 14 or 15 years old and still has the original battery. I have also replace them on a PC that was only a couple of years old before. MrBill ,. Are you referring to the date and time on the computer clock? Because it's still accurate. I doubt that it is the HD going bad.