Installing windows on SATA w/o floppy drive?

[KevC]

Is this possible?

I got a 120GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA HDD and wish to install windows on it. However, I don't have a floppy drive. When I'm installing Windows 2003 Server I need to press F6 to install SATA drivers. Then it asks me to put the driver disk in drive A, which i don't have.

Is there a way to force windows to read from the CDROM? Cos I have already burnt the necessary drivers on CD.

I'm going to try with XP ... but I have a feeling it's gonna ask me for the same thing..

[Ice Czar]

well at that stage youd need to slipstream it into the install
think Ive seen it done :rolleyes:

or you could install to a spare IDE and then install the driver and clone over

but all in all, borrowing a FDD is going to be easier, they aint dead yet

Updating Drivers in a slipstream installation (http://www.winntmag.com/Article/ArticleID/38619/38619.html) an unqualified lead, didnt review it

and Bart's way to create bootable CD-Roms (for Windows/Dos) (http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/)

[digitalman]

Unattended install, SATA drivers, and NO Floppy , I finally got it to work! (http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=13173&st=20&hl=)