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Answer» Alienware Area-51 m5750 Laptop
Core2 Duo 1.66ghz processor
512mb X2 ram
Fujitsu 80 sata HDD<----original
So a while back i was having trouble with windows, it would get to the main windows start up screen and the little scrolling bar would freeze, so i took it to GeekSquad and they told me it was a bad hard drive. I originally went ahead and told them to do it, but it cost so much, and they then told me that my windows recovery disk was bad and that i needed to get another one. Since i didnt want to wait for Alienware to take there sweet time sending me one i decided to just get my own hard drive and a new copy of windows.
So here is where my TROUBLES are at. After putting my hard drive in i proceed to start the windows instal. At first i got as far as windows setup saying "Setup is starting windows" and there it would hang up and i wouldnt be able to proceed any further. Well after being on the internet for an hour or so i found a forum where some one said that when windows setup first starts it will ask you to hit f6 if you want to install a third party RAID, but if you hit f5 it will take you to another screen where you can SELECT "standard pc... with I486"
From this POINT i think everything is fine, it gets past the the point where it freezes and i can choose to either instal repair or quit. When i hit either repair or install it tells me that there is no mass storage device detected and then resets.
I know that it is being detected because its in my bios, but the only thing im not sure about is that its being seen as a raid and not a hdd. To be honest i dont really know what raid is but i asked my uncle and he told me it shouldnt be like that
Another thing i thought might make a difference its that the original hard drive is a Fujitsu and the one i bought was a Hitachi. I dont think this would make a difference because GeekSquad was going to put in a Western Digital, but i thought i might throw that out there just in case.
I would appreciate any help that you can give.Quote from: donimmortal on September 22, 2008, 01:50:45 PM but if you hit f5 it will take you to another screen where you can select "standard pc... with I486"
the I486 is a older Pre-pentium processor. give that it's top rated speed was around 120Mhz, I doubt that's what you have- this setting is BOUND to cause you problems down the road-
as for your hard drive problem, you were SO close! see, SATA was created AFTER windows XP, so you'll need the proper SATA and RAID drivers for your laptops motherboard. You'll need to get a hold of the proper drivers somehow, (I've no experience with SATA at all, so I really don't know how it goes down) and then select the f5 option to install the SATA drivers. (the fact that they support RAID is redundant)
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