How To Solve Setup Cannot Find A Previous Version Of Window Installed On Your Computer New Tips And

XP and addional drivers:
In order to access a harddrive you need drives for mass storage and drivers for the HDD controller. The first is build into XP. The second might be.

If the driver is already on the XP installation CD then you do not need to do anything. If the driver is not on the standard CD then you have at least two choices:

Create a custom CD with addition drives (slipstream),
or load the driver during setup. You will be instructed do to this by the installation process with a 'Press F6 to load additional drives'. At that stage you press F6 and insert the floppy with the relevant driver.

Windows XP Upgrade CD "Setup cannot find a previous version of Windows installed on your computer" Error message...

so... my friend has a windows XP upgrade CD. we argue for about 30 minutes that you cannot turn a Upgrade CD into an completly unattended CD.. the error that we get when we try to install is:
Hi...I am working on a PC with a MS-6309 ATX VA5 mainboard /Pentium 3 CPU /one stick of 128 ram...
it has one completely cleaned drive,a video card and a DVD drive (I have taken all other cards out)...I am using a Genuine XP disk with SP2 on it....
When I press F8 to agree to the license terms ...I get this message Setup cannot find a previous version of Windows installed on your computer ..To continue Setup needs to verify that you qualify to use this upgrade product