Have you ever encountered this

[D_block]

I did a dual boot on a hp a1530n desktop for a guy, three weeks later he crashes both the xp media centre edition and vista ( on purpose )

so he brings back the pc for me. I now try to install windows xp professional on it, but the xp cd cannot detect the hdd.

Now this isthe first time ive seen anything like this. the pc originally came with Media centre Edition, when i insert my mcs disk it reads the hdd perfectly, but if i use xp it gets nothing like this disk isnt present.vista gives no problem though, works perfectly

Any of you guys seen this before ??

[neo]

I have the same problem with my HP dv2000 labtop came with Vista Home Premium.

Help me too.

[cluberti]

You need the bootsect.exe binary from the WAIK to set it back to NT52 (XP/2003) before XP will see it, and you'll need to run it from a boot disc (like WinPE/BartPE or another ERD disc).