SATA w/ XP Install.......

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I might be missing something here, but why do motherboard manufacturers put
SATA drivers on CD's when XP needs you to insert a FLOPPY!!!!!

Its all very well if you have a second PC to copy the driver to a floppy,
but what if
you dont?

Or am I missing something???

-Al
PS: Is XP shipping with SP2 preinstalled yet? Does this have hative SATA
support?
 
I might be missing something here, but why do motherboard manufacturers put
SATA drivers on CD's when XP needs you to insert a FLOPPY!!!!!

Its all very well if you have a second PC to copy the driver to a floppy,
but what if
you dont?

Or am I missing something???

-Al
PS: Is XP shipping with SP2 preinstalled yet? Does this have hative SATA
support?
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Its just so simple you insert the CD in the CD Rom Drive and copy the needed
files to a Floppy, isn't that Simple.

Oh you don't have a Floppy drive, well whose fault is that..?
 
Al Grant said:
I might be missing something here, but why do motherboard manufacturers put
SATA drivers on CD's when XP needs you to insert a FLOPPY!!!!!

Its all very well if you have a second PC to copy the driver to a floppy,
but what if
you dont?

Or am I missing something???
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Then you're stuffed - it's a major issue IMO and the reason why I run all my
system drives on IDE. I haven't had a floppy in a PC for over 4 years. I do
find my USB floppy useful on these annoying occasions though :)

Good luck with the SATA loading I found that on one board I tried using a
SATA off a VIA controller, after installing SP2 the machine would hang and
there was no fix for it :(

Latest SATA drivers used - no joy. Will run this without SP2 until new
drivers come out.
 
Its just so simple you insert the CD in the CD Rom Drive and copy the
needed
files to a Floppy, isn't that Simple.

Oh you don't have a Floppy drive, well whose fault is that..?
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Hmmm, wogor has suddenly improved his spelling & grammar. Could it be that
wogor the troll has been faking all this time? But, has anyone else noticed
the similarity between wogor and Harry?

Hmmmm, food for thought..........
 
I might be missing something here, but why do motherboard manufacturers put
SATA drivers on CD's when XP needs you to insert a FLOPPY!!!!!

Its all very well if you have a second PC to copy the driver to a floppy,
but what if
you dont?

Or am I missing something???

-Al
PS: Is XP shipping with SP2 preinstalled yet? Does this have hative SATA
support?
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This month's Maximum PC has a nice little article on slipstreaming all
the drivers you need (and sp2) into an xp install disc.

And um, everyone knows SATA requires that whole "press f6 to install
whatever" in the xp setup. Especially if you spend time in here.
 
yak said:
This month's Maximum PC has a nice little article on slipstreaming all
the drivers you need (and sp2) into an xp install disc.
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I had trouble getting my system to read from the new floppy I put in my
new system and wasn't able to get the Sata drivers installed during
setup. Slipstreaming the drivers into an XP install disc worked a charm.

Willi
 
Rosemary said:
NO YOU CAN NOT, NO BROWSE OPTION.


Seems like you have never tried it, and quote a stupid untested post..
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You're right. It seem antiquated that Windows XP requires a floppy at
that point. They should give you more options like using a CD. I think
it's bizarre.

Willi
 
You're right. It seem antiquated that Windows XP requires a floppy at
that point. They should give you more options like using a CD. I think
it's bizarre.
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The shame is that they only give one chance to provide the
driver... seems like when that error comes up during a boot
it could just display a boot menu prompting for the HDD
location or to select a driver medium.
 
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