Q: Trying to install Win XP on a HP Pavilion 7955. Put the new HDD in a week or so ago, and OS setup Preloads everything, and proceeds to walk all the way through to where it is detecting the hard drive. I get where is shows the hard disk, but underneath it I get the following:
39 203 MB Disk 0 AT ID 0 on bus 0 on ATAPI.
(Setup can not access this disk)
I press enter and then get a BSOD , I can not heads or tails out of the information
Stop: 0×0000008E (0xc0000005, 0xF99C2CAD, 0xF95847E4, 0×00000000
Setupdd.sys Address F99c2CAD BASE @ F9996000 Date Stamp 41107c8F
This is a new hard disk is not formatted . so I do not understand why Im not even opportunity to size.
Any and all suggestions are more than welcome to me:) Please Help! This is a PC I am a friend to help because he thinks I know what I do! I thought it would be a simple reinstall of the OS on a hard disk EW, but that is simply not the case: (
Best Answer: Buy the hard drive yourself and have it installed…or install it yourself. Most of the drivers you need will be automatically loaded with XP. Those drivers you don't get through XP will be on the HP OR COMPAQ support page. What you have is really an easy fix and your total cost should be the replacement hard drive….. you can put it in yourself very easily.
Good luck,
Z
Re:You can run the diagnostics from windows too, if you want to try it while in your system. If it gets the new drive formated and ready for a XP install, and the old system does have a bios limitation, you can just buy a used $5 PCI ATA controller card to get around it.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Interesting link, exactly the same! Will the diagnostic program work if no OS?Yes. Self-booting hard drive diagnostics programs contain their own OS and effectively test both the drive and the drive controller.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Interesting…..
Your error message is EXACTLY the same, on EXACTLY the same HP 7955, as in this 2003 UseNet post. (http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage/browse_thread/thread/3267bdfbe565c9e9/200eb73f4681f58a?lnk=st&q=xp+%22setup+cannot+access+this+disk%22+stop&rnum=2#200eb73f4681f58a)
Try running the drive maker's diagnostic program (free download from the Internet, burned onto a CD).
Interesting link, exactly the same! Will the diagnostic program work if no OS?
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Is the new drive set as Master?
Does it show as bootable in the BIOS?
Has the old drive been removed from the PC?
1. Yes, (2) yes (set as secondary after CD drive) and finally…(3)yes 
Re:Interesting…..
Your error message is EXACTLY the same, on EXACTLY the same HP 7955, as in this 2003 UseNet post. (http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage/browse_thread/thread/3267bdfbe565c9e9/200eb73f4681f58a?lnk=st&q=xp+%22setup+cannot+access+this+disk%22+stop&rnum=2#200eb73f4681f58a)
Try running the drive maker's diagnostic program (free download from the Internet, burned onto a CD).
Re:Is the new drive set as Master?
Does it show as bootable in the BIOS?
Has the old drive been removed from the PC?
Re:Sorry, NEW drive is 40GB.
Re:I was actually asking the size of the NEW HD because you may have BIOS limitations for HD size along with whatever other problems you are having.
You'll need to check the HP site for that information.
Re:HP is 5 years old. HD is 40GB. I think it's a bad "new" drive bought from ebay. Dam't, I knew better, but STILL ordered from ebay
Re:You never said if the jumpers are set correctly.
Download the drive manufacturers diagnostic from their website. It will create a floppy disk you can boot from to check out the drive.
No need to pre-format a disk for an XP install. The XP install routine will prompt you and do it for you. I've actually had bad results with already formatted disks for reasons I can"t explain. To make a drive you're adding to a system available in Device Manager, right click My Computer and choose Manage. Then choose Disk Management. From there you can partition anf format your drive. You can also change drive letters if desired.
You can test the Ram using memtest (http://www.memtest.org/).
Edit: How old is this HP and what is the size of the new HD?
Re:Okay…I just slaved it to MY computer via USB. It shows in BIOS on both my PC and the HP. When plugged into my computer, Windows found it as new hardware, but it doesn't show as a drive when I go into "My Computer" (I wanted to format it through my PC). I rebooted my system and ran the Windows XP CD on boot, and when installation finally got to where it shows the drives, it shows (along with my HDDs) but says under it "Setup cannot access this disk".
Not sure about the RAM in it. This is a "rather old" HP. I wish I had kept the old HDD, but it had sooo many bad sectors on it, that even the program "GetDataBack" was unable to recover anything, but I should have kept it and just tried a clean install. RAM is 256MB PC133, and I just reseated it into another slot…maybe that will work.
Re:Sounds like bad ram, the MSKB on the error clik (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315335)
Re:I don't know how to decipher these error messages any better than you do, but here is what I would try;
HP, Compaq, Dells whatever, usually hide the BIOS information from their users that would be really helpful in this situation. You need to make sure the HD is recognized by the BIOS.
Make sure it's jumpered the same as the drive that was removed. I think I can safely assume the old HD was a single drive in the system. Now, they may have had it configured as Master, or maybe as Cable Select. You need to match that setting on the new HD.
Sometimes drives are not labeled clearly in these regards. Go to the manufacturers website and you should be able to get the information you need using the model number of the drive.
This would be my first step.
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