Will I need a floppy drive?

[Zucarita9000]

For my next build I'm gonna use a SATA hdd. The motherboard has native SATA support (Intel 845PE, wich I believe sees the ports as IDE2 and IDE3). My question is, will I need a floppy drive to install the drivers during the Windows installation? I wasn't planning on putting a floppy drive.

My Windows XP CD is an OEM copy from HP, and I've read that I cannot slipstream SP2 on it.

 

[Dru22]

Well you'll need a floppy drive in order to install the drivers of the HDD. You'll need to either get the drivers off the manufactures website and copy them onto a 3.5" Floppy (These are the most up to date) and i recommend doing this. But if you can't and have the disk that has the drivers just install them from there. I have a DFI LanpartyUT and had to do the same thing. As far as the copy of Windows...As long as you haven't registered it then you'll be fine. I have a friend who installed his copy of Windows that came with his Dell. And he is currently running SP2 on it.

 

[bazcor]

Never having done it myself I can't say how dificult this, but it is possible to slipstream the drivers into XP.

this tool might help: http://greenmachine.msfnhostin...CREATE/xpcreateini.htm

 

[Schadenfroh]

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[Navid]

You will need to install drivers if you plan to use RAID.
If you just want to use a SATA drive (not RAID), you may not need to install any drivers.
I have a P4P800 deluxe motherboard from ASUS, and I have my XP OS on a SATA drive. I never needed to install a driver for it.

 

[Zucarita9000]

Originally posted by: Navid
You will need to install drivers if you plan to use RAID.
If you just want to use a SATA drive (not RAID), you may not need to install any drivers.
I have a P4P800 deluxe motherboard from ASUS, and I have my XP OS on a SATA drive. I never needed to install a driver for it.

I wont be using RAID.

 

[Zucarita9000]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
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Well, this is for a mobo with a third-party SATA controller. The Asus P4P800-E Dx. has two ports from the ICH5R south brigde and two from a Promise 20378 controller. I guess I'd have to do this If I wanted to use the ports from the Promise controller, rigth?