TECHKnight
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Add my vote! CD/USB for mass storage drivers! or anything else needed at the time of install. ANYTHING BUT FLOPPIES
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I can't believe this is still asked! If the respective companies don't supply the drivers in time to Microsoft, they don't get included. That's why AMD users have had to load drivers through F6 for their SATA ports, and those of us with Intel chipsets didn't have to.
Phoenix86 said:Folks, you can buy 1 (one) USB floppy drive and move it from machine to machine...
ir0nw0lf said:Also, those complaining that floppy drives are obsolete, does that mean by extension that the following are also obsolete: serial ports, parallel ports, PS/2 ports?
ir0nw0lf said:Also, those complaining that floppy drives are obsolete, does that mean by extension that the following are also obsolete: serial ports, parallel ports, PS/2 ports?
actually i would definitely not say that PS/2 ports are no longer needed, as you can experience lag on a mouse/keyboard when using them through USB (because of IRQ)beanman101283 said:Yes, it does. That's why we have USB ports, to make all that go away.
last time i loaded XP i slipstreamed it. a long and very annoying process, but it makes it much easier... it gets my drivers, sp2, and my CD key installed automatically. makes it a sit and wait process instead of a sit and wait and click and wait and click and wait and...mrtsherman said:Last time I loaded XP I borrowed my roommates floppy to get the sata drivers loaded. Please add usb/cd-rom support!