Xp & Sata

[klipper]

When installing XP on a SATA hard drive you must press F6 when booting from the XP CD and provide the drivers on a floppy disk.

However, I don't have a floppy in my machine so I have to attach one to get XP to see the drivers.

Does anyone know how to get the drivers onto the XP CD so it can load them automatically without the need for a floppy drive?

 

[Kendrak]

copy cd to HDD, make dir in the folder for your drivers, copy drivers to folder, re-burn the cd, *PrestO* (also works well when you put a *.txt on there with you CD-Key so you never lose the key.

 

[djnes]

Originally posted by Kendrak
copy cd to HDD, make dir in the folder for your drivers, copy drivers to folder, re-burn the cd, *PrestO* (also works well when you put a *.txt on there with you CD-Key so you never lose the key.

Interesting idea...if only it worked. I've never been able to get a driver slipstream to work at all with XP, regardless of which online guides I follow.

 

[Kendrak]

Originally posted by djnes
Interesting idea...if only it worked. I've never been able to get a driver slipstream to work at all with XP, regardless of which online guides I follow.

(I've never done this installing XP)
Can't you just hit f6 and when it asks for a floppy direct it twards the folder on the cd?

 

[djnes]

Originally posted by Kendrak
(I've never done this installing XP)
Can't you just hit f6 and when it asks for a floppy direct it twards the folder on the cd?

No, it doesn't prompt you for a path...it scans A: and that's it.