External Floppy Drive

[somebodykillmeplease]

I think i floppy took a crap on me today(kinda stinks.) I getting ready to slipstream SP2 but i need a floppy to install my RAID Drivers. I was wondering if i could get an External Floppy to replace my internal floppy and still be bootable and still halt of bios if a floppy is in the drive(while connected). Thanks for the replies. Cheers

 

[thorin]

I believe that should work as long as your BIOS has support for USB Floppy devices.

Thorin

 

[stevty2889]

If you are gonna slipstream SP2, why not slipstream your Raid drivers as well? I am not sure that an external usb floppy will work for installing the Raid drivers during windows install.

 

[Zepper]

Yes, as said above, your BIOS needs to support booting from USB for that to work.
.bh.

 

[sswingle]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
If you are gonna slipstream SP2, why not slipstream your Raid drivers as well? I am not sure that an external usb floppy will work for installing the Raid drivers during windows install.

It won't. It really made me mad the first time I tried it. The computer boots fine if I have a bootable floppy, but Windows XP refuses to see the drive for installing raid drivers.

 

[neonerd]

i only use external...i hate internal for my personal system, and sometimes i stash $$ into the floppy tray...as long as your bios has an option to boot from USB FDD you're fine.

 

[corkyg]

Why do you need a floppy for RAID drivers? Can't you put them on a pen or thumb drive (flash memory)? Or, burn them to a CD?

 

[stevty2889]

Because windows XP will only take the raid drivers from an internal floppy.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
Because windows XP will only take the raid drivers from an internal floppy.

..guess they missed that point

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers

Originally posted by: stevty2889
If you are gonna slipstream SP2, why not slipstream your Raid drivers as well? I am not sure that an external usb floppy will work for installing the Raid drivers during windows install.

It won't. It really made me mad the first time I tried it. The computer boots fine if I have a bootable floppy, but Windows XP refuses to see the drive for installing raid drivers.

at the moment..