Will external USB floppy drive work in setup?

[Westborough]

Attempting to install RAID drivers with F6 during setup. There's no floppy
drive. If I buy an external USB floppy drive will it work during setup or
am I forced to do a slipstream version of the CD. Thanks.

 

[philo]

Attempting to install RAID drivers with F6 during setup. There's no floppy
drive. If I buy an external USB floppy drive will it work during setup or
am I forced to do a slipstream version of the CD. Thanks.

During the installation...the installed does load USB drivers...so it should
work.

I'd just install an internal floppy drive though...
they cost a lot less than the USB floppies...

 

[John]

Attempting to install RAID drivers with F6 during setup. There's no floppy
drive. If I buy an external USB floppy drive will it work during setup or
am I forced to do a slipstream version of the CD. Thanks.

It depends if your bios has settings for a USB floppy or not.

John.

 

[R. McCarty]

In my experience a USB Floppy works on initial call to locate a 3rd
party driver but at a second call to reload the driver it will fail to load.
I have a Sony USB floppy and while handy it just isn't that reliable
for setting up Windows XP.

I'd just slipstream my XP install CD to include the Raid driver. There
are a number of automated tools that can help you embed the driver
and build a disk.

I've used nLite to create embedded XP install disks. The guide for it
is found here:
http://www.nliteos.com/guide/

 

[Westborough]

It's a notebook, so the USB will work.

During the installation...the installed does load USB drivers...so it
should
work.

I'd just install an internal floppy drive though...
they cost a lot less than the USB floppies...

 

[Westborough]

Helpful. I checked and BIOS will support it. thanks.

 

[Westborough]

I'm there now. Thanks for the help.

In my experience a USB Floppy works on initial call to locate a 3rd
party driver but at a second call to reload the driver it will fail to
load.
I have a Sony USB floppy and while handy it just isn't that reliable
for setting up Windows XP.

I'd just slipstream my XP install CD to include the Raid driver. There
are a number of automated tools that can help you embed the driver
and build a disk.

I've used nLite to create embedded XP install disks. The guide for it
is found here:
http://www.nliteos.com/guide/

 

[John John]

Only a handful of USB drives are compatible with the F6 driver
installation method: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916196

John

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Attempting to install RAID drivers with F6 during setup. There's no floppy
drive. If I buy an external USB floppy drive will it work during setup or
am I forced to do a slipstream version of the CD. Thanks.

The USB Floppy drive should work at startup.

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Bruce Chambers

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