First off make sure the BIOS POST detect the harddrive correctly.
And you don't have to FDISK the harddrive with Win98 bootdisk. WinXP setup
will let you create partition on it once it found the harddrive.
Is the harddrive attached on an add-on IDE card? If this is so, u have to
press F6 when prompted during the inital part of setup to provide appropriate
driver for windows setup to access drives on the add-on card.

Nigel

"karel3" wrote:

> My daughter installed a new EIDE hard drive in her computer. It was FDISKED
> and formated using a Win98 Boot disk. The Bios was set with CDROM, HDD-0,
> Floopy. Then she put the WindowsXP Home Edition CD OEM in the DVD and ran
> Setup -- it went the to point of "Welcome to setup"; then my daughter
> pressed Enter to begin the installation of Windows and what she got was
> "Setup did not find any hard disk drive in your computer. Setup cannot
> continue." or something to this effect. She changed to a different new hard
> drive of the same brand, and got the same message. She even reset the Bios
> and that did not help.
> I have spent the last two days on the phone with her trying to help her with
> this problem and have not been able to find a solution. I did do a search
> through the various posting and found some similar problems, but related to
> RAID or other types of drives.
> Does any one have any idea of how to fix this problem??
>
> ~ Paul
> aka karel3