Problems installing windows xp !! help please

when setup stops and asks "to set up windows xp press enter " the next screen says"setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer" setup cannot continue! ive checked and done all i can think to do now for 3 days! my hard drive shows up in bios to be just fine. what do i need to do to install windows xp? thanks
Message Edited by rab72173 on 12-24-2008 03:07 PM

Go to the BIOS, under config, change the HDD mode to COMPATIBILITY. Your HDD should now be seen by the installer CD. Upon installing all the drivers using System Update, you can put it back to the default option.
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