Can XP be installed on Raid0 with no floppy drive.

[Zoson]

I need to somehow get it to recognize the raid controller so it can see the hard drives...
Does anyone know how to emulate a floppy drive from a dos bootable cd?
Thanks,
-Zoson

[NoLegs]

basically, that's what a bootable cd does, it emulates a floppy drive.

so, the one way that i can think of it working is this...

1. create a bootable cd from a win 98 boot disk, or any other boot disk that'll give you cd-rom support, and a dos prompt. (you can create the disk in nero from a floppy, pretty easilly)

2. if it works, create a "bootable cd" (one that really won't boot) from the driver disk for the raid controller (the driver disk isn't bootable so the cd won't actually be bootable, but it will read the bootable section as a floppy disk.)

3. boot computer with bootable cd from #1.

4. insert win cd(whatever you're using)

5. start setup, by typing setup from cd drive prompt.

6. when it asks for floppy disk with drivers for raid, insert cd from #2. and it "might" work

no garrantees...

that's the best solution i can think of, cuz i know winxp asks for a floppy disk, and there's really no way around that...

[AchTuNG!]

don't think you can start xp setup from a prompt. just take the side off and hang a floppy drive out the side for the 10 mins that you'll need it.

[batkiwi]

Google for slipstream xp drivers.

Basically what you'll be doing:

-extract your xp cd to your HD
-run SP1 installer with a special flag to modify the cd files (on HD)
-put your driver package for the raid controller on the special place that the tutorial will tell you
-burn your cd per instructions

This will include SP1 and your drivers on the CD, already applied! :)


Let me say though that you're foolish for using raid0 unless it's as a temporary filesystem for video editing/etc. You should NEVER EVER use raid0 as your main filesystem, and you should NEVER keep anything on it you can't afford to lose RIGHT NOW.

[BobSutan]

^^^ Slipstreaming is your best bet.

Remember folks: K.I.S.S.

[ThreeDee]

raid0 is risky ..thats why I keep everything on 180gig secondary drive ...run OS and proggies off of raid ..but important stuff is on the 180gigger

[ravendark]

slipstreaming raid drivers wont work. i dont know why but no matter what people try, and alot on the msfn forums have, it never seems to work. i have tried , and it just never seems to find them.