unable to install xp pro sata raid without obsolete hardware?

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Is it really true that I need a diskette station to load the raid drivers
during windows install? I tried several alternatives, but either the install
program doesn´t recognize my hdds at all, or something else went wrong.

These things don´t cost anything, but i think it is crazy there i have to
buy one just to install some drivers. Is there a way to fool the installer
and feed him with a USB stick? Is there another work around?

Also using an old dikette thing is useless, for nobody I know has used these
things during the last several years, so the heads have been oxidized and
they can´t read or write anything anymore.

Who knows the trick?

Onno Vinkhuyzen
 
onnomv said:
Is it really true that I need a diskette station to load the raid
drivers during windows install? I tried several alternatives, but
either the install program doesn´t recognize my hdds at all, or
something else went wrong.

These things don´t cost anything, but i think it is crazy there i
have to buy one just to install some drivers. Is there a way to fool
the installer and feed him with a USB stick? Is there another work
around?

Also using an old dikette thing is useless, for nobody I know has
used these things during the last several years, so the heads have
been oxidized and they can´t read or write anything anymore.

Who knows the trick?
Click to expand...

Integrate the RAID drivers needed into the Windows XP CD..
 
Thanks. sounds like this is simple and doable.

I guess i only need the 24 kB sata.exe. Do you know where to put it? In the
root of the i386? One of it´s sub-directories? I could put it in all of them.
But should I add the name (and path) to some indexfile the installer reads?
Top, bottem, does it matter?
 
onnomv said:
Is it really true that I need a diskette station to load the raid
drivers during windows install? I tried several alternatives, but
either the install program doesn´t recognize my hdds at all, or
something else went wrong.

These things don´t cost anything, but i think it is crazy there i
have to buy one just to install some drivers. Is there a way to fool
the installer and feed him with a USB stick? Is there another work
around?

Also using an old dikette thing is useless, for nobody I know has
used these things during the last several years, so the heads have
been oxidized and they can´t read or write anything anymore.

Who knows the trick?
Click to expand...

Shenan said:
Integrate the RAID drivers needed into the Windows XP CD..
Click to expand...
Thanks. sounds like this is simple and doable.

I guess i only need the 24 kB sata.exe. Do you know where to put it?
In the root of the i386? One of it´s sub-directories? I could put it
in all of them. But should I add the name (and path) to some
indexfile the installer reads? Top, bottem, does it matter?
Click to expand...

Using Google...
http://www.google.com/
(How-to: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/basics.html )

One of the many pages that come up that I recognize is:
http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/READING/addraid.htm
 
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