Installing a SATA hard drive without a floppy drive

[Xionide]

My new sata drive is coming today and I do not currently have a floppy drive in the house. I I downloaded my sata drivers from the website and I was wondering if I can put this on a cdrw to install the drivers instead of a floppy? Or is there any other method I should use? I will be installing xp pro that has sp2. The drive is a seagate 160gb NCQ drive.

Thanks in advance.

 

[MrChad]

Slipstream them or bite the bullet and buy a $10 floppy drive.

 

[Xionide]

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: Xionide
My new sata drive is coming today and I do not currently have a floppy drive in the house. I I downloaded my sata drivers from the website and I was wondering if I can put this on a cdrw to install the drivers instead of a floppy? Or is there any other method I should use? I will be installing xp pro that has sp2. The drive is a seagate 160gb NCQ drive.

Thanks in advance.

go borrow from a friend.

 

[KoolDrew]

You have to know someone who has a floppy drive right? You can borrow it just for a day or w/e and give it back.

 

[Xionide]

I rummaged threw my closet and found one. I am up and running on sata w00t. I still think its rediculous that to use the newest hard drive interface you have to hook up a dinosaur to your computer. Oh well.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: Xionide
I rummaged threw my closet and found one. I am up and running on sata w00t. I still think its rediculous that to use the newest hard drive interface you have to hook up a dinosaur to your computer. Oh well.

Floppy's still have their uses. This is one of them.

 

[Xionide]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo

Originally posted by: Xionide
I rummaged threw my closet and found one. I am up and running on sata w00t. I still think its rediculous that to use the newest hard drive interface you have to hook up a dinosaur to your computer. Oh well.

Floppy's still have their uses. This is one of them.

IT SHOULDNT BE!

 

[PELarson]

Originally posted by: Xionide
My new sata drive is coming today and I do not currently have a floppy drive in the house. I I downloaded my sata drivers from the website and I was wondering if I can put this on a cdrw to install the drivers instead of a floppy? Or is there any other method I should use? I will be installing xp pro that has sp2. The drive is a seagate 160gb NCQ drive.

Thanks in advance.

nLite is your solution.

 

[flamingspinach]

Actually, isn't it true that if your motherboard has native SATA support then it's transparent to the OS?

-fs

 

[Zee]

Originally posted by: flamingspinach
Actually, isn't it true that if your motherboard has native SATA support then it's transparent to the OS?

-fs

yes that is true. certain Asus and Biostar, etc motherboards dont require one to press F6 during install. It depends on the Bios of the motherboard.

 

[Zee]

Originally posted by: Xionide

Originally posted by: PorBleemo

Originally posted by: Xionide
I rummaged threw my closet and found one. I am up and running on sata w00t. I still think its rediculous that to use the newest hard drive interface you have to hook up a dinosaur to your computer. Oh well.

Floppy's still have their uses. This is one of them.

IT SHOULDNT BE!

see above post

 

[flamingspinach]

Originally posted by: Lazee

Originally posted by: flamingspinach
Actually, isn't it true that if your motherboard has native SATA support then it's transparent to the OS?

-fs

yes that is true. certain Asus and Biostar, etc motherboards dont require one to press F6 during install. It depends on the Bios of the motherboard.

Hmm, you say these BIOSes doesn't require you to press F6. But does this also mean you don't need a floppy or external driver-loading of any kind?

-fs

 

[Zee]

Originally posted by: flamingspinach

Originally posted by: Lazee

Originally posted by: flamingspinach
Actually, isn't it true that if your motherboard has native SATA support then it's transparent to the OS?

-fs

yes that is true. certain Asus and Biostar, etc motherboards dont require one to press F6 during install. It depends on the Bios of the motherboard.

Hmm, you say these BIOSes doesn't require you to press F6. But does this also mean you don't need a floppy or external driver-loading of any kind?

-fs

yes you got it. basically it will treat a sata hdd just the same as a ide hdd

 

[imverygifted]

reminds me of a dumb mistake i made, i was building 3 A64 computer all SATA based and didnt buy any floppy drives cuz i thought who the heck needs a floppy drive never used one of 'em in a long time sure enough it delayed me a week because i needed to order 'em i tried using a usb drive and it didnt work, but i never tried a cd

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: imverygifted
reminds me of a dumb mistake i made, i was building 3 A64 computer all SATA based and didnt buy any floppy drives cuz i thought who the heck needs a floppy drive never used one of 'em in a long time sure enough it delayed me a week because i needed to order 'em i tried using a usb drive and it didnt work, but i never tried a cd

a cd won't work. When you press F6, they ask to insert a floppy. No option for the cd.

But if you slipstream it into xp, you should be set

 

[dev0lution]

Some boards will support 'em without having to do the driver install from the floppy. The RAID drivers can be another story though...

 

[nealh]

my Neo 2 Plat..allowed a winxp pro w/sp2 slipstreamed install to sata without a hitch...but if I want to raid I need a floppy...I hate them...I killed a PSU with floppy and not sure why...it had been working for 2 yr without a hitch

 

[mdaniel73]

Explain slipstreaming. I've slipstreamed service packs into 2000 & XP, but never done drivers. Do you just extract them into some folder on the CD (\i386 maybe) and then setup will have the drivers without having to ask?

 

[Jeff H]

mdaniel72, check this out.

 

[flamingspinach]

mdaniel73: nLite will nLite-n you! It's an automated slipstreamer.

-fs

 

[mdaniel73]

Cool. I'll check it out.