Loading drivers on A drive without a floppy

[BarkingGhostar]

Ok, I need to figure out how to format a USB flash drive to appear as a floppy drive containing Intel and Silicon Image SATA/RAID drivers that I would load from during an XP install (F6) stage.

There seems to be a lot of bootable virtual floppy drive solutions, but I'm not looking for bootable, just give the appearance to XP's installer that there is one there.

 

[hclarkjr]

why not use this to load the drivers right into the image of XP? http://www.nliteos.com/

 

[Bubbaleone]

Ok, I need to figure out how to format a USB flash drive to appear as a floppy drive containing Intel and Silicon Image SATA/RAID drivers that I would load from during an XP install (F6) stage.

There seems to be a lot of bootable virtual floppy drive solutions, but I'm not looking for bootable, just give the appearance to XP's installer that there is one there.

An elegant solution from Pendriveapps.com: Virtual Floppy Drive

Or the tried and true: HP Drive Key Boot Utility

 

[VirtualLarry]

Ok, I need to figure out how to format a USB flash drive to appear as a floppy drive containing Intel and Silicon Image SATA/RAID drivers that I would load from during an XP install (F6) stage.

There seems to be a lot of bootable virtual floppy drive solutions, but I'm not looking for bootable, just give the appearance to XP's installer that there is one there.

I don't think that this is possible. I wish it were, quite frankly.

I think for something like this to work, it would have to have a floppy drive controller in the system chipset (or LPCIO chipset), that could present something that looked like floppy controller hardware to the software, but in hardware, it would redirect the I/O to some BIOS routine, that could access a USB flash drive as if it were a floppy.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

An elegant solution from Pendriveapps.com: Virtual Floppy Drive

Or the tried and true: HP Drive Key Boot Utility

I went looking for the HP tool yesterday and got to an HP web page that said it was no longer available. I used your link and d/l and installed. At one point it asks for an image file, but I'm lost here. How do I create an FDD image file to reference?

 

[imagoon]

Use Nlite and embed the driver, burn a new CD. Less pain by a lot.

 

[Rifter]

Nlite for sure

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Ok, I got Nlite installed and used it to slipstream the SATA/RAID drivers as well as the Intel chipset drivers. It created an ISO called Winlite (default name). I then tried PowerISO to format the USB flash drive as a bootable HDD using the Winlite.iso file.

Rebooting into the BIOS, this USB is appearing as a hard drive, but if I select it as the boot-first option it never gets there. I tried burning the winlite.iso image file using Power ISO to a blank DVD-R, but it failed reading the first sector. Maybe this is a limited constraint since it was unregistered?

I'm surprised I didn't have a standalone DVD authoring tool on this computer. I'll have to find time on another to re-attempt this effort.

 

[imagoon]

Ok, I got Nlite installed and used it to slipstream the SATA/RAID drivers as well as the Intel chipset drivers. It created an ISO called Winlite (default name). I then tried PowerISO to format the USB flash drive as a bootable HDD using the Winlite.iso file.

Rebooting into the BIOS, this USB is appearing as a hard drive, but if I select it as the boot-first option it never gets there. I tried burning the winlite.iso image file using Power ISO to a blank DVD-R, but it failed reading the first sector. Maybe this is a limited constraint since it was unregistered?

I'm surprised I didn't have a standalone DVD authoring tool on this computer. I'll have to find time on another to re-attempt this effort.

Nlite has a built in burner. Near the end select "burn a disk." Also normally it spits out a ISO-CD, I have no idea if a DVD is supported.

 

[Dahak]

Ok, I got Nlite installed and used it to slipstream the SATA/RAID drivers as well as the Intel chipset drivers. It created an ISO called Winlite (default name). I then tried PowerISO to format the USB flash drive as a bootable HDD using the Winlite.iso file.

Rebooting into the BIOS, this USB is appearing as a hard drive, but if I select it as the boot-first option it never gets there. I tried burning the winlite.iso image file using Power ISO to a blank DVD-R, but it failed reading the first sector. Maybe this is a limited constraint since it was unregistered?

I'm surprised I didn't have a standalone DVD authoring tool on this computer. I'll have to find time on another to re-attempt this effort.

Unfortunately trying to create a bootable usb install for xp is not as easy as it sounds but as imagoon said, just select the options to burn to cd and it will use the internal burning capability to make the cd. you should not need a dvd for adding just the chipset and sata drivers integrated.

if not just get cdburnxp and burn the winlite.iso file to a cd

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I do not own any CD-R media. However, I did go to another computer and burned a DVD-R with the Winlite ISO file and it is bootable. Unfortunately, the first slipstreamed driver reported as corrupted and that self-terminated the install routine. This authoring was done in Nero.

Let me try Nlite again.

 

[imagoon]

I do not own any CD-R media. However, I did go to another computer and burned a DVD-R with the Winlite ISO file and it is bootable. Unfortunately, the first slipstreamed driver reported as corrupted and that self-terminated the install routine. This authoring was done in Nero.

Let me try Nlite again.

Where did you get the driver? I think Intel has a special "F6" driver. I recall something like what you are mentioning happening because the windows drivers have some extra files that the inf doesn't copy correctly.

--edit--

Random example (RST)
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Det...duct=Intel®+Rapid+Storage+Technology&lang=eng

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I got the drivers from Abit's website I re-authored the slip to remove the RAID drivers and it worked. Got XPpro installed, and then loaded the RAID drivers from the Windows environment. All is good in the forest again. Nlite rocks!