Installed an exchanged motherboard on my hp pavillion dv 9081ea laptop. hard drive not getting detected. hard drive has ubuntu 8.04 and windows xp sp3 installed on it

You can install the windows to follow this step.
Make sure that the CD drive is on first boot. When you turn on your laptop you need to press the delete key fast, to access the BIOS. Once you have change the BIOS settings you need to save it. After you save once the laptop detecting the windows CD press the enter key fast also to boot from CD.

Below is a link to download the sound drivers for your laptop. Download, install and reboot and everything shoud be fine.

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp28001-28500/sp28481.exe

You cannot see HD because there are no apropriate SATA drivers included in windows XP CD. So you need to create custom windows XP installation CD

To install windows XP in that laptop u will need to create custom windows XP CD, how will you do that:

1. Download nlite from http://www.nliteos.com/
2. Download drivers for that laptop
3. Download service pack 3 for windows XP
4. Install nlite for windows XP and run
5. Follow instructions and include SP3 for XP, all the drivers for laptop and create ISO Image
6. Burn ISO Image
7. Install Windows XP
8. Good Luck
   

hi..yea but download 1st all drivers support for what kind OS/Windows are your using..good luck and have a nice day

Your laptop has a SATA hard drive and windows XP doesn't recognize those drives cause the operating system came out before those drive were made.

Follow these steps I found thru google to get windows xp sp3 to recognize your drive:

http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-39282-xp-can-t-recognize-hard-drive-for-os-install

You'll have to use a program to do this but people explain how to do it on that page plus the program is free.

When I tried first installing windows XP on my laptop, I had the problem that I already had Windows Vista on it, but wanted to delete it and install Windows XP. Whenever I tried installing XP, it kept telling me that there was no hard drive. I searched through all the forums on this topic and finally found out that I had to change a setting in the BIOS called native SATA driver support.

My assumption is that once they changed the mainboard on your PC, the bios settings changed as well. Try searching through your BIOS, it might have a similar setting that you might need to change.

This is a Vista laptop with a SATA hard drive. Windows XP does not have the SATA drivers, you therefore must slipstream the drivers to a new installation disk

Hello,

It sounds like UBUNTU formated your hard drive where xp does not reconized the drive. When you go into BIOS setting, do you see your hard listed? If so, you should be able to put a clean install of XP to the drive. When you start the install, you must select REFORMAT drive and install XP. If this still fails, you may need to fdisk your drive first using DOS command and reinstall XP. Let us know if you incounter any more problems after doing this. Good Luck.

Hi can u tell what os is currently install in ur laptop..

Go to bios setup check whether ur driver is showing.

if its showing means go to boot device property and change the first boot device to Driver.And then try it..

Best Solution is to disable Native SATA support in BIOS ,
Now Win XP will recognize the Hard Disk