You dont need a floppy to install XP, it uses a bootable CD to do the job.
I have XP running off an SATA drive and have an EIDE on the system also. I
had to go into the BIOS and set the SATA drive as the boot disk. My BIOS
has asetting for boot order which at first didnt show the SATA, I had to dig
a little deeper and found a setting that let me pick which harddrive would
be used to boot.
"Shenan T. Stanley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> LB <> wrote:
> > I have just finished building my new machine on a GA-
> > 8KNXP with 2 EIDE and a SATA hard drive. I'm not doing
> > any RAID just need the room. I want the SATA drive to be
> > my system drive (SPEED) but I'm not able to install XP
> > Pro on it even though windows see it in the text install
> > phase. It installs on the primary master no matter what I
> > do. If anybody has some advice, I would appreciate.
> >
> > One more thing: I do not have a floppy in this machine
> > anymore! I don't use them anymore so I don't want it to
> > sit there.
>
> My first response would be one of these two answers:
>
> Without a floppy drive, you may be out of luck. Windows XP, although it
> touts its good points, its setup is not made for floppy-less quite yet...
> UNLESS
>
> You could create your own Windows XP CD with the appropriate OEM drivers
on
> it - so Windows SHOULD be able to detect and install without your pressing
> of F6.. In Theory.
> http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/drivers.htm
>
> Good Luck. The easy solution is to throw a FDD in there for the duration
of
> the install.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> "Just trying to help"
>
>
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