Quick question about P4P800 SE and SATA HD

[bamacre]

This will be my first SATA hard drive, and I have tried to read up a little about installation since it seems to be a little trouble for certain people. For some, hitting F6 during Windows installation and providing the drivers from a floppy seem to the norm.

My problem is I don't have a floppy drive, and I really don't want to go and buy/install one.

Do I need to do this? Is there a way around it?

 

[vetteguy]

Originally posted by: bamacre
This will be my first SATA hard drive, and I have tried to read up a little about installation since it seems to be a little trouble for certain people. For some, hitting F6 during Windows installation and providing the drivers from a floppy seem to the norm.

My problem is I don't have a floppy drive, and I really don't want to go and buy/install one.

Do I need to do this? Is there a way around it?

As long as you're using the SATA port from the ICH5 chipset, and not using RAID, you should be fine.

 

[bamacre]

Thanks, that's what I was looking for.