Comments on: VMWare ESX – Creating a Windows XP VM and getting error: "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer."

By: rob

rob — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:28:28 +0000

Yeah, the Newer LSI Logic driver floppy failed to detect the drive. I used the Older floppy and it worked fine.

Using ESX 3.5u2, Win XP Pro SP1 VLK 32bit. SCSI Controller set to LSI Logic

Thanks a bunch for supplying the Floppy image!

By: Irfan

Irfan — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:32:13 +0000

Hello,

I had same issue with Vmware fusion 3 + WinXP Professional. I provided Bus Logic XP Driver at the time of xp installation and it worked well. Thanks for this great information.

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:35:25 +0000

I had to set the floppy to connect and set the cd drive to boot first.

thanks for the advice.

Two comments:
-you can have the .flp connected at power up if you set the CD/DVD as the first boot device in the Virtual-BIOS. (options tab > boot options)

- I can not get VMWare 3.5 to recognize the LSI driver. I have build my own flp from at least two sources and used the one on this site. I can only get it to recognize the Bus Logic. For that this article is worth it to me.

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:16:54 +0000

Thanks a TON!!!
Works Great….

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:47:36 +0000

worked like a charm! THANKS!!