Help installing drivers

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I'm currently trying to install Windows XP on my computer and I need a SATA
driver for it to find my harddrive and it wants me to insert a floppy with it
on, but the thing is I don't have a floppy drive on my comp. It's asking for
me to insert it into "A:".

Is there any way to make it search like a USB drive or something?

Thanks.
 
DevEight said:
I'm currently trying to install Windows XP on my computer and I need a SATA
driver for it to find my harddrive and it wants me to insert a floppy with it
on, but the thing is I don't have a floppy drive on my comp. It's asking for
me to insert it into "A:".

Is there any way to make it search like a USB drive or something?

Thanks.
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The answer depends on your motherboard. Most modern motherboards have
the ability to boot from a USB device so go into the BIOS and set this
option properly. While you're there, enable Legacy USB.


Malke
 
You'll need either a usb floppy, if your mobo supports it on boot up, or
install an internal floppy, or finally slipstream the sata/raid drivers into
a winxp cd
 
How would I "slipstream" the driver onto the CD?

Well I tried inserting a USB with the driver on when it was asking for "A:"
and it didn't find anything.
So if I enable Legacy USB it'll work?
 
DevEight said:
How would I "slipstream" the driver onto the CD?

Well I tried inserting a USB with the driver on when it was asking for "A:"
and it didn't find anything.
So if I enable Legacy USB it'll work?
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The option in the BIOS for booting to a USB device will be under the
"Boot Order" category. Your motherboard may call it something else, but
that's where it will be. I have no idea if enablig Legacy USB will work.
Try it; it can't hurt. As for slipstreaming the controller drivers, see:

Integrate the controller driver (slipstream) -
http://www.greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/READING/addraid.htm
(Can be adapted to Windows 2003, etc.)

Slipstream RAID or SATA controller drivers:
http://www.maximumpc.com/2005/01/how_to_slipstre.html
http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/36/SESSID=8b0c51fd6eca712e465d2e6f79256fc8/


Malke
 
Well I'm currently on a Linux system and nothing of that works, not even with
a win emulator. Tried nLite and masses of other stuff.
 
DevEight said:
Well I'm currently on a Linux system and nothing of that works, not even with
a win emulator. Tried nLite and masses of other stuff.
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I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by the above. If you
mean that you currently have a Linux distro installed, this has nothing
to do with the BIOS settings. Assuming that you want to install XP on
this machine instead of Linux, you need to go into the BIOS and change
the boot order to boot from your CD/DVD drive first and enable Legacy
USB support. Then get a USB floppy drive and have the SATA controller
drivers on a floppy disk in the floppy drive. Then boot with the XP
install CD. If you've properly set your boot order to optical drive
first, you should get a prompt to "Press any key to boot from CD". Do
so. Early in the installation process, XP will ask if you need to
install additional drivers and tell you to press F6 if you do. Press F6.
In a little bit you'll be asked for the SATA controller drivers and
you'll point the install to the USB floppy drive.

All of the above has nothing to do with Linux.

If you want to create a slipstreamed XP install CD with the controller
drivers on it and you aren't able to do this in whatever distro you're
running, borrow a friend's Windows machine to create the slipstreamed CD.


Malke
 
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