Hello,
OK got 4 pallets of HP 8200 ready to be installed. I unpack one and try to install win xp on it (haven't got time to build a win 7 image and organise the domain so that some computers use win 7 and others win xp).
So pressing F6 to inallt the sata drivers don't work. the downloaded drivers from HP site all cause a BSOD.
going to storage optios i change sata emulation to ide rather than AHCI. XP installed great! but on taking out the cd after a couple of reboots "non-system disk or disk error. no bootable device found".
OK put cd back in same error, insert a win 7 install cd - same error, replace the HDD with the orginal one (i took out hte orginal HDD incase anything like this happened) - same error.
when i try and select boot device i only see EFI boot sources: windows boot manager. No reference to the cd drive or hdd.
In the bios i can change the boot order but there is no listing of the hdd, just cd/dvd drive, windows boot manager.
The system won't even boot up from the CD drive. Done a cmos reset and no difference.
Any suggestions greatfully recieved??


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