XP prof. install with USB-FDD A drive and SATA Hard drive

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David Ehrmann

If you have a USB floppy (I won't ask why), you should
have a bootable CD-ROM drive and BIOS. As I remember,
bootable CDs came out around the PII/USB time. Sorry- no
real advice. I haven't gotten a chance to play with SATA
yet, but if it is backward compatable with ATA, as ATA has
historically been, you could install it off a ATA133
controller, then install the drivers and switch.
Better... Add the SATA drivers to the CD.
 
Hello Jp,
The USB floppy is not available via F6 during setup. To add drivers you
would need regular floppy drive.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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| Bootable cd yes. Bios supports even booting from other
| devices (propably memory sticks) as well as booting from
| network.
|
| Unfortunately adding the drivers to the cd wont help. By
| default the setup asks for a floppy (A) when specifying
| additional SCSI drivers and it's not possible to get them
| from cd. Or is it? At least i don't know how.
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >If you have a USB floppy (I won't ask why), you should
| >have a bootable CD-ROM drive and BIOS. As I remember,
| >bootable CDs came out around the PII/USB time. Sorry- no
| >real advice. I haven't gotten a chance to play with SATA
| >yet, but if it is backward compatable with ATA, as ATA has
| >historically been, you could install it off a ATA133
| >controller, then install the drivers and switch.
| >Better... Add the SATA drivers to the CD.
| >
| >
| >>-----Original Message-----
| >>Hi.
| >>
| >>The problem is quite serious. I bought the following
| >>components:
| >>
| >>ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard and Maxtor SATA hard drive.
| >>
| >>I don't have a normal FDD drive. Instead i have an USB-
| >FDD
| >>as my only floppy drive. Now both my previous HD's broke
| >>within 10 minutes so i need to make a fresh install (XP
| >>Pro). How can i do this?
| >>
| >>When i press F6 to specify SCSI driver for the SATA drive
| >>everything is still ok (after disabling normal FDD from
| >>BIOS i got the USB-FDD to work). But after XP setup has
| >>created the list of files to be copied the setup cannot
| >>find my USB-FDD drive anymore. And because of that the
| >>setup causes either blue screen of you know what or if i
| >>press F3 to exit... then it exits.
| >>
| >>JP
| >>.
| >>
| >.
| >
|
 
Well, there's the problem.

This link shows you how to make a Windows XP CD bootable
(assuming you have access to a burner). It is useful when
slipstreaming service packs, hot fixes, and drivers.
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/

Here is an article about adding drivers, sorta.
http://www.experts-
exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20634931.html





http://unattended.sourceforge.net/

From there...

"
First, download the driver package from the hardware
vendor and expand it. There should be a collection of .inf
files in the top-level directory; that is the directory
you need to copy to the OS distribution point.

To where should you copy it, exactly? That is a long
story...

Under the i386 folder on the distribution point, create a
folder named $oem$. Under that folder, create a folder
named $1. Yes, really. Windows Setup will copy everything
below the $1 folder to the %SystemDrive% (normally C:)
during installation.

You may put your driver folder anywhere you like under the
$1 folder, and you may add as many driver folders as you
like. The install.pl script will automatically scan for
all driver folders and offer to add them to the
OemPnPDriversPath setting in the unattend.txt file for
you.

"

This might help.

This also isn't quite what you're looking for, but it's
the same idea. If you go through the Windows Update
Catalog at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com, (make sure
you enable the catalog), you can download drivers, if
Microsoft has made them.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us%
3B814847

Please email me with your progress.
-----Original Message-----
Hello Jp,
The USB floppy is not available via F6 during setup. To add drivers you
would need regular floppy drive.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
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| Sender: "JP" <[email protected]>
| References: <[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
| Subject: XP prof. install with USB-FDD A drive and SATA Hard drive
| Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 04:24:46 -0700
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| Bootable cd yes. Bios supports even booting from other
| devices (propably memory sticks) as well as booting from
| network.
|
| Unfortunately adding the drivers to the cd wont help. By
| default the setup asks for a floppy (A) when specifying
| additional SCSI drivers and it's not possible to get them
| from cd. Or is it? At least i don't know how.
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >If you have a USB floppy (I won't ask why), you should
| >have a bootable CD-ROM drive and BIOS. As I remember,
| >bootable CDs came out around the PII/USB time. Sorry- no
| >real advice. I haven't gotten a chance to play with SATA
| >yet, but if it is backward compatable with ATA, as ATA has
| >historically been, you could install it off a ATA133
| >controller, then install the drivers and switch.
| >Better... Add the SATA drivers to the CD.
| >
| >
| >>-----Original Message-----
| >>Hi.
| >>
| >>The problem is quite serious. I bought the following
| >>components:
| >>
| >>ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard and Maxtor SATA hard drive.
| >>
| >>I don't have a normal FDD drive. Instead i have an USB-
| >FDD
| >>as my only floppy drive. Now both my previous HD's broke
| >>within 10 minutes so i need to make a fresh install (XP
| >>Pro). How can i do this?
| >>
| >>When i press F6 to specify SCSI driver for the SATA drive
| >>everything is still ok (after disabling normal FDD from
| >>BIOS i got the USB-FDD to work). But after XP setup has
| >>created the list of files to be copied the setup cannot
| >>find my USB-FDD drive anymore. And because of that the
| >>setup causes either blue screen of you know what or if i
| >>press F3 to exit... then it exits.
| >>
| >>JP
| >>.
| >>
| >.
| >
|

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