Who knows the way to install SATA drivers from CD during windows installation?

[mmargul75]

During windows installation on SATA drive windows asks for the SATA drivers and looks for them on floppy disk. I don't have a floppy drive installed so I want to find the way to copy those drivers from CD. How canI do this?????????
Thanks.
Michael

 

[Pandamonium]

Not as far as I know. You *might* be able to pull it off if you hacked the windows install though...

 

[Shagga]

Do you have the CD that came with your motherboard. Perhaps the drivers are on that and you can copy them to the Floppy first...

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: Shagga
Do you have the CD that came with your motherboard. Perhaps the drivers are on that and you can copy them to the Floppy first...

Note to Shagga read the whole post before replying.

I don't have a floppy drive installed

 

[Shagga]

Originally posted by: Budman

Originally posted by: Shagga
Do you have the CD that came with your motherboard. Perhaps the drivers are on that and you can copy them to the Floppy first...

Note to Shagga read the whole post before replying.

I don't have a floppy drive installed

Oops.

Thanx for that.... So, where do we go from here... lol

 

[yhelothar]

floppy drive sucks.. shame on MS for not putting a feature to look for the drivers on the cdrom... :disgust:

 

[mmargul75]

Yea, I was looking forward to get rid of this damn floppy drive and actually I did, cause I don't need it anymore, but then you come to do something like this and ops... (((

 

[Boonesmi]

you can aways just hook up a floppy drive just for the install

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: Boonesmi
you can aways just hook up a floppy drive just for the install

from his other thread... i don't think he has one.. hopefully he does.

maybe if you have one of those USB thumbdrives... and set it as emulate floppy in the bios?

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0
floppy drive sucks.. shame on MS for not putting a feature to look for the drivers on the cdrom... :disgust:

I TOTALY agree with that statement,whould it have been so hard for them to just add a browse menu???

With a browse menu it would be easy to point to where the drivers are. :|

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: mmargul75
During windows installation on SATA drive windows asks for the SATA drivers and looks for them on floppy disk. I don't have a floppy drive installed so I want to find the way to copy those drivers from CD. How canI do this?????????
Thanks.
Michael

I just did this install myself (SATA with a floppy drive).

I can only think of one way to do this without the floppy, and it's ugly. Install Windows as usual on your PATA hard drive, and install the motherboard drivers (including SATA drivers). Then make a Nortons Ghost image of this drive\. Then "revert" to the ghosted image of the HDD on the SATA drive.

 

[randomlinh]

i'd say slipstream the drivers in... but my friend tried doing that w/ just raid drivers..... only a portion of the drivers could be found. start askin around for a floppy

 

[EeyoreX]

Yea, I was looking forward to get rid of this damn floppy drive and actually I did, cause I don't need it anymore, but then you come to do something like this and ops...

As much as people want the floppy to be dead, it isn't. I think we just need to realize that. Until a replacement is agreed upon by the industry, we are going to be stuck with them for reasons like this. A floppy drive costs about $10 and I think it pays to have one around for a while, just in case. You can install it only as needed, or you can install it and hide it behind a drive bay, only to uncover it when needed.

There is an archived thread, I think in the OS section on a way to possibly do this without a floppy drive. I believe the user nothingman had come up with the solution/workaround (I could be wrong on both counts, my memory isn't what it never was ). I do know there were a couple old threads about this though. That much I do remember.

\Dan