virtual box virtual machine setup - no hard disk found

[George Olson]

When I try to set up a new virtual machine using virtual box 4.1.6, I
get the following error on the 2nd windows setup screen:

Windows XP Home Edition Setup

Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer.

Make sure that any hard disk drives are powered on and properly
connected to your computer, and that disk related hardware configuration
is correct. This may involve running a manufacturer supplied diagnostic
or setup program.

Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup, press F3.


Note that I HAVE set up a hard disk in the virtual machine - in fact I
set up 2 of them, hoping that I could get the 2nd one to work. One is
SATA, the other is SCSI. They are both dynamically allocated.

I have searched the virtual box forums and not found anyone else with
the same problem. Any ideas?

G

[George OLson]

Post by George Olson
When I try to set up a new virtual machine using virtual box 4.1.6, I
Windows XP Home Edition Setup
Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer.
Make sure that any hard disk drives are powered on and properly
connected to your computer, and that disk related hardware configuration
is correct. This may involve running a manufacturer supplied diagnostic
or setup program.
Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup, press F3.
Note that I HAVE set up a hard disk in the virtual machine - in fact I
set up 2 of them, hoping that I could get the 2nd one to work. One is
SATA, the other is SCSI. They are both dynamically allocated.
I have searched the virtual box forums and not found anyone else with
the same problem. Any ideas?
G

Oh I forgot to add, I am using openSUSE 11.4 with KDE 4.7.

When I go to the boot setup on the virtual machine, it sees the 2
virtual disk drives, but then the windows install doesn't see them.

[m***@spitzenpfeil.org]

Post by George Olson
When I try to set up a new virtual machine using virtual box 4.1.6, I
Windows XP Home Edition Setup
Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer.

XP-SP3 ?

If not, it doesn't come with SATA drivers. You need to use an IDE controller in that case.

[m***@spitzenpfeil.org]

Post by George Olson
When I try to set up a new virtual machine using virtual box 4.1.6, I
Windows XP Home Edition Setup
Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer.

XP-SP3 ?

If not, it doesn't come with SATA drivers. You need to use an IDE controller in that case.

[George Olson]

Post by George Olson
When I try to set up a new virtual machine using virtual box 4.1.6, I
Windows XP Home Edition Setup
Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer.
Make sure that any hard disk drives are powered on and properly
connected to your computer, and that disk related hardware configuration
is correct. This may involve running a manufacturer supplied diagnostic
or setup program.
Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup, press F3.
Note that I HAVE set up a hard disk in the virtual machine - in fact I
set up 2 of them, hoping that I could get the 2nd one to work. One is
SATA, the other is SCSI. They are both dynamically allocated.
I have searched the virtual box forums and not found anyone else with
the same problem. Any ideas?
G

I got it to work. For some reason VB didn't like having a SATA
controller for my virtual drive. I switched it to an IDE controller and
the machine read the virtual drive and was able to install windows and run.

G

[Brian K. White]

Post by George Olson

Post by George Olson
When I try to set up a new virtual machine using virtual box 4.1.6, I
Windows XP Home Edition Setup
Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer.
Make sure that any hard disk drives are powered on and properly
connected to your computer, and that disk related hardware configuration
is correct. This may involve running a manufacturer supplied diagnostic
or setup program.
Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup, press F3.
Note that I HAVE set up a hard disk in the virtual machine - in fact I
set up 2 of them, hoping that I could get the 2nd one to work. One is
SATA, the other is SCSI. They are both dynamically allocated.
I have searched the virtual box forums and not found anyone else with
the same problem. Any ideas?
G

I got it to work. For some reason VB didn't like having a SATA
controller for my virtual drive. I switched it to an IDE controller and
the machine read the virtual drive and was able to install windows and run.
G

The mystery "some reason" is as someone else pointed out, Windows XP
before service pack 3 does not contain any sata drivers. It's not a VB
problem.

If you want to create a virtual machine that presents an sata
controller, then you can't expect an OS that is too old to know about
sata controllers to work on it.

You need to have an sata driver floppy image ready during install, or
else find or create a "slipstreamed" SP3 windows xp install cd.

Or, as you did, tell VB to present an ide controller instead of sata.

[George OLson]

Post by m***@spitzenpfeil.org

Post by George Olson
When I try to set up a new virtual machine using virtual box 4.1.6, I
Windows XP Home Edition Setup
Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer.

XP-SP3 ?
If not, it doesn't come with SATA drivers. You need to use an IDE
controller in that case.

Yep, that is what it was. I changed the controller to IDE and got it to
work. Thanks!!

G