Installing SATA Hard Drive w/Win XP without a Floppy Drive

[Guest]

Trying to install Win XP onto new SATA hard drive when I hit F6 it tells me
to put in a floppy drive so it can copy the drivers onto the floppy disk.
The problem is that I have no floppy drives. Is there a way to tell it to
copy it to a USB data stick?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Go buy a floppy,you"ll need it,thier only 15.00 or so.

 

[Guest]

Do you have Raid or SCSI Controller?
If not, why are you pressing F6?
Doesn't controller come w/CD?

 

[FlyBoy]

Trying to install Win XP onto new SATA hard drive when I hit F6 it tells me
to put in a floppy drive so it can copy the drivers onto the floppy disk.
The problem is that I have no floppy drives. Is there a way to tell it to
copy it to a USB data stick?

Thanks

One option is to make a slipstreamed Windows installation CD that has
the SATA driver on it. Just Google for slipstreaming.

Another is one of these:

http://www.startech.com/ststore/itemdetail.cfm?ProductID=PATA2SATA&mt=

http://www.qtec.info/products/product.htm?artnr=14283

With such an adapter you can install Windows with your SATA drive on
the standard IDE (PATA) controller without the Mobo or Windows
'knowing' that it is not a PATA (EIDE) drive. No need for F6. Once
Windows is installed you can add the SATA driver in the functioning
Windows. After that you can move the drive to the SATA controller.

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