Raid 0 on 2 160gb SATA drives w/o floppy

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DiGiTs

This question must have been asked 100 times, however I can't find a viable
working solution.

I'm building a new PC with the following specs.:
Thermaltake Case VM3000A
480W Thermaltake Silent PurePower
ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe MoBo.
1GB Kingston Hyper-X PC3700 Dual Channel Mem.
2 - 160 GB Maxtor Diamond Pro 9 Sata HDD
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB Video
LG 8X DVD Super Multi Drive
LG 52x24x52 CDRW/16X DVD Combo
Mitsumi 7-in1 Floppy
on a Windows XP Professional OS

Through the BIOS I have setup the RAID 0 to spec. Fastrack verifies it is
there and FUNCTIONAL. Now I go to format the drive and install the OS and
Windows is looking for the drivers for the RAID (F6) ON DRIVE A:. Okay, well
they are right here on the setup CD that ASUS has provided... Nope, looks
like I'll have to run this handy MAKEDISK program to get them. This is where
it all goes wrong.

My new PC doesn't have a floppy! I don't want a floppy and that's why I
spent $400 on DVD and CD drives. So, I breakdown and go to the local PC
store and pickup one of those new 7-in1 media floppies figuring if I gotta
buy a freaking floppy drive then it might as well be useful at some point in
it's life. Hook her all up, hey that looks sharp, but it doesn't freaking
work! Now the BIOS sees this new drive and even allows me to setup the
option to boot from the thing, but it just won't read from it. I have tried
Win98 startup disks and other bootable sys. floppies to no avail. (ever feel
like your just in this endless loop, going round and round?)

So, now what the heck do I do? I must congratulate Microsoft for the lack
of options to select another drive or browse in order to install those
required drivers. Any help it this point would truly be appreciated.

Mark
 
"DiGiTs" said:
This question must have been asked 100 times, however I can't find a viable
working solution.

I'm building a new PC with the following specs.:
Thermaltake Case VM3000A
480W Thermaltake Silent PurePower
ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe MoBo.
1GB Kingston Hyper-X PC3700 Dual Channel Mem.
2 - 160 GB Maxtor Diamond Pro 9 Sata HDD
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB Video
LG 8X DVD Super Multi Drive
LG 52x24x52 CDRW/16X DVD Combo
Mitsumi 7-in1 Floppy
on a Windows XP Professional OS

Through the BIOS I have setup the RAID 0 to spec. Fastrack verifies it is
there and FUNCTIONAL. Now I go to format the drive and install the OS and
Windows is looking for the drivers for the RAID (F6) ON DRIVE A:. Okay, well
they are right here on the setup CD that ASUS has provided... Nope, looks
like I'll have to run this handy MAKEDISK program to get them. This is where
it all goes wrong.

My new PC doesn't have a floppy! I don't want a floppy and that's why I
spent $400 on DVD and CD drives. So, I breakdown and go to the local PC
store and pickup one of those new 7-in1 media floppies figuring if I gotta
buy a freaking floppy drive then it might as well be useful at some point in
it's life. Hook her all up, hey that looks sharp, but it doesn't freaking
work! Now the BIOS sees this new drive and even allows me to setup the
option to boot from the thing, but it just won't read from it. I have tried
Win98 startup disks and other bootable sys. floppies to no avail. (ever feel
like your just in this endless loop, going round and round?)

So, now what the heck do I do? I must congratulate Microsoft for the lack
of options to select another drive or browse in order to install those
required drivers. Any help it this point would truly be appreciated.

Mark
Click to expand...

Just a guess. How about "USB Mass Storage Device Configuration" in
the BIOS. Maybe if the floppy shows up there, you can "force" the
floppy to be a floppy :-)

Paul
 
Are you 100% sure that the floppy drive data cable is connected correctly?

Why not just connect a standard floppy temporarily during initial XP
installation, and then remove it once the installation has been completed?
Just borrow one out of another PC.....

John S.
 
You are on the right tract wanting to install the SATA controller driver by
pressing F6 but you will need a standard floppy drive connected to the
motherboard. The card reader that you may be using sounds like it connects
via USB and windows XP does not know much about USB devices in setup mode
(only basic keyboard and mouse devices)

Apparently there is a way of putting the SATA controller drivers on the
Windows XP install disk in a special directory but that was quite a while
ago now but you may find it if you google it.
 
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