Friend has SATA drive but can't install windows without using SATA floppy drivers

[Renegade23216]

I told my friend he wouldn't need a floppy drive... and his hard drive is SATA... so we built his computer.

Windows installation keeps saying no hard drive detected... because there's a floppy with SATA drivers we have to install.

My question is... any way we can just burn these drivers (on a diff. comp) and run them from a CD? Wouldn't that CD have to be bootable? If so, how do we make it bootable? And would that even work?

Thanks.

 

[oneshot47]

Be a good friend and loan him your floppy drive for 5 minutes.

 

[Renegade23216]

Yes that's no problem. That's what we did last time. But then we have to go and do that every time he needs to install windows... kind of annoying to keep removing and swapping floppy drives.

I'm just asking if it's possible to burn them to a bootable CD and it that would work? If so, how to make the CD bootable? I don't see how hard drive manufacturer's can still expect everyone to have a floppy in (almost) 2005.

 

[oneshot47]

You can slipstream it onto the win xp installation...Text

 

[Zepper]

If you don't have a floppy drive, you will almost immediately come upon a situation that requires one. (Murphy's Law of PCs - 3rd corollary.) Still too soon to go without a FD! If you don't want to see it, just mount it recessed and cover with the bay filler plate.
.bh.

 

[dionx]

Originally posted by: oneshot47
You can slipstream it onto the win xp installation...Text

exactly how i did it

 

[baumerz]

I just ran into this same problem. I haven't built a PC with a floppy drive in over a year. Won't any USB floppy drives or thumb drives configure to be recognized as drive a: thru the USB port without installing Windows?

 

[imthebadguy]

my motherboard(abit ai7) lets u set a usb thumb drive as (a and boot from it, check the mobo settings, i went floppy free about a year ago and havent encountered a single situation in which i would need a floppy

 

[newParadigm]

I noe my ipod is recognized by windows as a volume for inmstalation, so maybe a FireWire HDD could werk to put the driversw on?

 

[erikistired]

Originally posted by: newParadime
I noe my ipod is recognized by windows as a volume for inmstalation, so maybe a FireWire HDD could werk to put the driversw on?

i know my ipod is recognized by windows as a volume for installation, so maybe a firewire hdd could work to put the drivers on?

translated. and i'm not sure if that would work, but the slipstreaming thing above definately does.