Captain Pooka
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Alright, my friend gave me a laptop. its a Satellite Pro from Toshiba, P200. Has the fingerprint scan and everything. He forgot his BIOS Pass and it didn't recognize his scan. I got past his BIOS pass to the Vista Log on screen. It recognized his fingerprint but did not log him on, it just sits there. He doesn't know his pass to log on.
I have a windows XP cd I'm trying to install.. just reformat the whole thing (he doesn't hav e the recovery cd) Well, XP does it's thing then when it comes time to install it says no HDD could be found. But I see on the boot menu, when I put boot from cd, that there is a hdd there. And I can get to vista log on... the vista OS.. so I know it detects the hdd.
Alright, no getting around that. The laptop has two slots for hard drives, I tried it in the other. It is SATA, so I can't use my previous IDE laptop hdd.
Naturally, I tried sticking it in my desktop to format it and install windows, then just put it in the laptop. Well, on an sata laptop hdd it has more than a little connector, it has a big one next to it and my cable doesn't have the big thing. I guess that's why my desktop didn't have another hdd. (yes, yes, I did try it anyways...)
Any ideas?
I have a windows XP cd I'm trying to install.. just reformat the whole thing (he doesn't hav e the recovery cd) Well, XP does it's thing then when it comes time to install it says no HDD could be found. But I see on the boot menu, when I put boot from cd, that there is a hdd there. And I can get to vista log on... the vista OS.. so I know it detects the hdd.
Alright, no getting around that. The laptop has two slots for hard drives, I tried it in the other. It is SATA, so I can't use my previous IDE laptop hdd.
Naturally, I tried sticking it in my desktop to format it and install windows, then just put it in the laptop. Well, on an sata laptop hdd it has more than a little connector, it has a big one next to it and my cable doesn't have the big thing. I guess that's why my desktop didn't have another hdd. (yes, yes, I did try it anyways...)
Any ideas?