Windows XP Installation issue - cannot find hard disk

Posted by Marco on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Marco
Published on 2012-03-30T04:19:23Z Indexed on 2012/03/30 5:33 UTC
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A friend of mine gave me a laptop with Windows 8 installed and nothing else. I don't like it so I am trying to remove it by installing Windows XP.

I have a windows XP installation CD that I have used before and worked fine, but didn't work when I tried to install it on the Windows 8 machine. It keeps telling me I don't have a drive to install to.

Then I log into Windows 8 again and install check partitions. I found 2 and tried to make a new one but it will only let me make one of 69mb.

Next, I tied to find a way to go back to XP with BCD install and try to set the boot loader for XP but it wasnt there. Somehow I deleted the bootloader for Windows 8 and now it asks me for a recovery tool for media.

I am not familiar with the laptop specs, but it is a Toshiba with about 250GB storage, and above 1GHz processor.

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