I wanted to clean out my laptop to give to my brother, I put in the windows operating SYSTEM install disc and after it loaded all the NECESSARY files, and drivers It gave me the options to "Install windows", "Repair an existing installation", or to "quite without installing". I tried over and over multiple timesto install it,but it kept saying "No available drives, make sure the drives are powered on and WORKING." (which the definitely were) but it still refused to work (I have done this a million times with all different types of computers and never had this problem.) So then i went old school and brought out the DOS bootable disc.I used it to manually format the pc's hard drive. After formatting and creating a new partition i tried the installation of window once again only for it to tell me there were no hard drives detected.( Is there any solution to this part?) But then I gave up on that Hdd (and keep in mind this hard drive came with the system and worked perfectly.) Then I took a spare hdd that also had no problems thinking i could just use that instead. (This one was installed correctly) Then i turned on the system but had no luck. This time my bad luck was a little different. It didn't even let the cd installation to boot. As soon as i put the power on a message came up it said "Smart failure predicted on hard disk 2 WARNING: Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure MAY be imminent. Press f1 to continue." I tapped the f1 key multiple times then pressed every button on the keyboard. NO LUCK. (is there a solution to this part) If anybody has any answers on this it would help. NOTE: I can use either hdd so if there is an EASIER solution to fixing one problem opposed to the other thats the one ill chose.hello there ,
its look like your pc have sata controller. which pc are you using ?
which windows are you installing?i actully got the system to work but unfortunatley i had to resort to vista it was the only os that would work. Thanks anyway!