PC not recognizing USB floppy drive.

[ZzZGuy]

Got my new computer put together, everything works except it won't detect my USB floppy drive when I go to install windows XP 32 bit. Pess F6 to install RAID drivers and nothing happens.

I have a internal floppy drive but it doesn't use the IDE cable like I thought it did so I have to venture into town and face the swarm to get a new cable. The cable will add too much clutter to the inside of my case (trying to get good airflow) so I can't keep it in there once I get the OS installed.

The floppy drive works because I already made a RAID driver floppy with my laptop. The HD's are both the same and unpartitioned. BIOS set to raid with a RAID 0 configuration made. Using a ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe MoBo and SATA II HD's. I deleted the partitions on the HD's so I know they are plugged in. My USB keyboard is plugged directly into the MoBo same as the USB floppy drive so that works.

So any ideas?

 

[RebateMonger]

Microsoft has a KB article on using USB floppy drives to install mass storage drivers.

Just because a USB floppy drive works inside of Windows doesn't guarantee it'll work when you hit F6.

If your floppy drive isn't supported, you might want to use NLite to slipstream your mass storage drivers into a new XP Install CD. It doesn't take long.

 

[mpilchfamily]

Do you have USB enabled in your bios?

 

[ZzZGuy]

Originally posted by: mpilchfamily
Do you have USB enabled in your bios?

You mean under Advance / USB Configuration?

If so it is enabled, shows one USB keyboard and one USB drive, I tried changing the drive setting from auto to Floppy and Floppy FDD. Still nothing.

@RebateMonger
Wooo, I shall give NLite a try.

 

[ZzZGuy]

Well I give up.

I discovered that XP install does actually detect the USB floppy drive when I set the BIOS back to IDE and saw the damn thing loading the raid driver (noticed because I had my foot on the drive). But when I went back and turned the RAID back on and skipped pressing F6 it DID load the file BUT still ended saying it couldn't detect any drives (only giving the option to quit).

Other thread I made http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=2250538&STARTPAGE=1

I'll just get the WD Veloci Raptor HD now rather then later.