No floppy and only SATA HD's on NF7-S, need to use XP CD

[BaboonGuy]

I am having computer problems (descripted below) and I am pretty sure the solution is the repair option in the Windows XP boot CD. The thing is I only use SATA HD's and the XP CD can't recognize the drives. I don't have a floppy so I can't load drivers with F6 either. Is there anything I can do? I could get a floppy later but it'd be at least a week or two and I'd rather fix it sooner.

I'll describe the problem just in case I can fix it w/o using the XP CD. Basically I turn on my computer and it goes through the normal loading but when the XP logo/load should show it just goes to black. When I try to safe-mode the load stops at drvmain.sdb. In fact it's exactly like this old thread I found here. Except I haven't tried using the XP CD for reasons above. Chiboy in the thread stated he fixed the problem by messing with the CD drive wires. I don't know what to do at this point so any help is appreciated.

Thanks all.

 

[bovinda]

Do you have another puter you could just pull the floppy drive out of for the time being, to install the drivers and go ahead with the repair install? I don't know a way to install the drivers w/out the floppy drive, and I don't think there is one.

It makes no sense to me why the XP CD will only recognize the A: drive for the drivers--it seems like it would be so easy to make it see other drives as well--but I am no programmer, so that's the way it is, I guess. Good luck--maybe someone else will know better.

 

[BaboonGuy]

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[GregANDTCH]

Would the installation recognize the drivers if you put them on a cd?
Just wondering.