chuckman45

i know what the harddrive is because its marked on the label. vista was installed

the computer is a compaq presario v6000. where would i find the sata settings

i'm trying to install windows 7 on hp laptop. harddrive is a wd 160 gb. i boot from dvd and when it gets to the screen to format, there are no drives. just blank. i went to bios and it shows no hardrive. is there a way to fix this. i think the person who owns the laptop deleted everything.

can someone point me in the right direction on how to do this