What the heck. I can boot and run anything off Hiren's BootCD v14.0 just fine in my Windows XP Pro laptop, but in my desktop it boots but does not find my hard drive. Biostar MCP6P-M2 ver 6.0 mobo, 2 gb DDR2 800 mhz, AMD Athlon XP 64 X2 dual core, Windows XP Pro, Seagate 500 gb Sata 3.0 hard drive and a Samsung SATA DVD burner. The pc works perfectly in every way, why doesn't Hiren's BootCD function properly in it?

Is there something in the BIOS that I have set wrong? If so, I have no clue what!!! Oh yes, my desktop runs like a champ, I'm on it now. I like your suggestion that some BIOS setting may be the problem here, but I'm drawing a blank trying to guess which setting might be wrong.

Here is the whole sad story: I only booted with Hiren's BootCD to try it out before sending a copy to a friend who's been hit with a rootkit, she asked me to type out a 'for dummies' tutorial for her, telling her every single step and every last scroll and keystroke of what she should do. I was able to access all the utilities on Hiren's BootCD when I ran it in my HP laptop, but I had tried it in my desktop first and 'Mini Windows XP' does not recognize any SATA drive - so no anti-malware utilities can be used. So here's something I tried, I went to Biostar's website and downloaded the Serial ATA AHCI drivers from here: and put them on a floppy and loaded them at the F6 option, but Hiren's Mini Windows XP still does not see my hard drive or my sata DVD drive, it only sees the ramdrive and the A drive.

Hiren's BootCD 15.1 does not see my Hard-disk in Mini-XP - posted in Hirens Boot CD: I have a Western Digital 320GB SATAII Buffer 16MB Hard-Disk on a mainboard with Nvidia nForce 570 SLI MCP Chipset.Hiren's BootCD 15.1 does not install my Hard-disk drivers, and also it does not install my D-Link. HP Notebook PCs - How to Add Serial ATA (SATA) Drives to a Windows Installation. Download the latest “Intel Matrix Storage Manager” driver. After downloading the “Intel Matrix Storage Manager” create one folder named Sata and copy the iata. Intel Matrix Storage Manager also includes SATA controller driver.