Possible to install to SATA drive without floppy?

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Chris Oates

Is there any way to install XP pro to a machine that only
has an SATA drive and a DVD drive? No floppy. When I
press F6 to install my SATA drivers, it only checks for a
floppy drive. (Hey Microsoft, that IS a bug, or at least
a stupid oversight that should be considered a bug)

I do not own, and I refuse to buy, another floppy drive.
I threw all of mine out a few months ago. Good
riddance. I have a USB flpppy in the rare once in a
decade time I need to read a 1.44 disk, but XP install
doesn't like that any more than my SATA drive.

This is annoying and stupid.

Chris
 
Chris said:
Is there any way to install XP pro to a machine that only
has an SATA drive and a DVD drive? No floppy. When I
press F6 to install my SATA drivers, it only checks for a
floppy drive. (Hey Microsoft, that IS a bug, or at least
a stupid oversight that should be considered a bug)

I do not own, and I refuse to buy, another floppy drive.
I threw all of mine out a few months ago. Good
riddance. I have a USB flpppy in the rare once in a
decade time I need to read a 1.44 disk, but XP install
doesn't like that any more than my SATA drive.
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Look into slipstreaming the driver into the CD.
 
if the motherboard has intel ichr5 sata and you are not running raid you
don't need to load drivers. just enable sata, and disable sata raid, in the
bios. I have sata running on xp pro w/o adding extra drivers.
 
Dave M,

Thanks for telling me how it was supposed to work. That
led me to discover that there was a bug in my BIOS that
would not allow the RAID function to be turned off. A
cumbersome BIOS upgrade later (via burning a DOS-boot
CDR) I'm able to get XP to be happy. Thanks.
 
i,am having the same problem and your right it is
annoying and stupid. please let me know if you figure
this one out Ta!!
 
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