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Windows Xp Installation

  • 09-07-2005 8:47pm
    #1
    OctavarIan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭


    Just a quick question:
    When installing Windows Xp, do you need a floppy disk to install it? If so, is it absolutly nescessary? Because I dont have a floppy drive. :(


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Nope.


  • #3
    OctavarIan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    Oh yeah! So long uBuntu! Thanks!

    BTW, I have a SATA hard drive, I heard this takes a different installation to a IDE hard drive. Will I need a floppy for a SATA installation?


  • #4
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    No modern OS's need a floppy for installation. Some will offer you the option of creating a floppy boot disk, but even that's fading away.

    adam


  • #5
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    basically what happens is that the computer boots from the CDROM and loads a limited OS.

    Most, if not all SATA drivers are not on the XP disk, so it will not see your drives.

    1st of all download the latest SATA drivers from the mobo makers website, then you have two choices:

    1. "slipstream" the drivers into the windows XP disk.
    2. Put the drivers on a floppy, when the computer boots from the CDROM it will prompt you to press 5 to specify addional storage drivers.

    You can then install the drivers for your SATA controller and windows setup will see your drives.


  • #6
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Actually, Ill be putting a sata drive in an old computer soon.

    Can i just install win2000 on it straight off?


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  • #7
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    Can i just install win2000 on it straight off?

    not sure what you mean given the conext of an old machine. Its not the drives that are the issue, its the controllers.

    2k has bugger all SATA drivers built into the setup part, meaning that setup will not see anything on the SATA channell.

    Usuing an SATA drive on a PATA channel is fine, as the controller is supported.


  • #8
    zuma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭zuma


    I like the idea of slipstreaming the SATA drivers into WinXP.

    Has a generic driver been written for all SATA controllers to give basic operations until, from within windows, the correct SATA driver can be installed???


  • #9
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    zuma wrote:
    I like the idea of slipstreaming the SATA drivers into WinXP.

    Has a generic driver been written for all SATA controllers to give basic operations until, from within windows, the correct SATA driver can be installed???


    No generic one yet, but you can slipstream the ones from your floppie(s) onto the disk.


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