Trying to install fresh copy of xp pro

Hello everyone im stuck please anyone give me some advice in here.
Ive bought a lenovo laptop 3000 N200 0769 about a month ago which is duo to core and it runs very slow like it was intel celeron inside and im thinking of installing a fresh copy of xp it is already on xp but i want a fresh copy.
I put a the xp pro cd to boot it but it says windows cannot find any hdd on ur system i cant install the fresh copy please any tell me the steps i need to follow thanks
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Hi Beni,
chances are your BIOS is set to AHCI Mode. SATA harddrives aren't recognised until after the driver is installed, which is not part of the XP cd install. So you have to change it to "Compatability"
Start the BIOS Setup Utility menu.
Select Config.
Select Serial ATA (SATA).
Select Compatibility.
Now you can install XP. Change the setting back only when you've installed the right drivers.
Check out this guide,
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=188992
alternately try this,
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-67897.html
Cheers,
John
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Message Edited by nonny on 03-16-2008 03:09 PM

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