windows setup doesn't recognize hard drive

Question

After three years I decided that Windows had become corrupt enough that I wanted to wipe it clean and start over.  I boot to the reinstallation cd for Win XP sp1a and after prompting the program to reinstall windows it tells me that there are no connected hard drives.  There are in fact two connected hard drives.  If I boot to windows I can use both of them without a problem even though according to the hard disk diagnostic the primary drive fails.  I have also tried this with both drives connected by themselves.  If anyone has any ideas I'd be most appreciative.

dunedin · Answer

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