Installing XP on a Serial ATA?? - Help!

Rjupiter · 27-October-04, 02:27 PM

Well a while back my IDE drive kind of caught fire but still kept going for awhile until yesterday. I knew this was coming so I bought a new Serial ATA drive replace it. Now I am having a problem in that I can't WinXP to install on the drive cause it does not see it. So I looked around and found that I needed to install the drivers for my mobo inorder for it to work. Great so during the istall I press F6 and try to install the only problem is that it ask for a floppy or A drive and I don't have a floppy drive. Besides the fact my drivers for my borad came on a CD. So is there anyway around this or I am just screwed at this point?

Cyno01 · 27-October-04, 02:40 PM

Borrow a floppy from somewhere? I temporarily canibalized one from the family rig to get my SATA stuff running.

Yeoman · 27-October-04, 02:44 PM

Goto your local computerstore, hopefully a retailer like wal-mart or Best buy, purchase the drive and bring it home. Install drivers, return to store. Return drive to get money back and tell them that your computer just bombed out and you don't need the drive any more. Tell them your gonna look at the new computers. Look at new pc's decide you don't want one. Go home... Mission accomplished. Dollars spent on drive 0$. A little dishonest but it works for those short on cash.

~Yeoman

stereomod · 27-October-04, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Yeoman


	Goto your local computerstore, hopefully a retailer like wal-mart or Best buy, purchase the drive and bring it home. Install drivers, return to store. Return drive to get money back and tell them that your computer just bombed out and you don't need the drive any more. Tell them your gonna look at the new computers. Look at new pc's decide you don't want one. Go home... Mission accomplished. Dollars spent on drive 0$. A little dishonest but it works for those short on cash. ~Yeoman

im not sure thats the honest way to install XP just salvage one from another computer, or spend like 19 buxs for a floppy , hmm or less?

$SOLID$ Necro · 27-October-04, 09:23 PM

You are going to need a floppy drive! (I broke down and picked one up for 15$ when I got my Raptor)

You can download the drivers from the Motherboards website and make your own disk.

KraftMayo · 27-October-04, 09:32 PM

yeah, there's no way to get around the floppy disk thing.

damn the man

Rjupiter · 29-October-04, 08:05 PM

thanx for the info guys I got xp to install.

27-October-04, 02:27 PM		#1 (permalink)
Rjupiter Apex Advanced Techie	Installing XP on a Serial ATA?? - Help! Well a while back my IDE drive kind of caught fire but still kept going for awhile until yesterday. I knew this was coming so I bought a new Serial ATA drive replace it. Now I am having a problem in that I can't WinXP to install on the drive cause it does not see it. So I looked around and found that I needed to install the drivers for my mobo inorder for it to work. Great so during the istall I press F6 and try to install the only problem is that it ask for a floppy or A drive and I don't have a floppy drive. Besides the fact my drivers for my borad came on a CD. So is there anyway around this or I am just screwed at this point?

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27-October-04, 02:40 PM		#2 (permalink)
Cyno01 Apex Tech God	Borrow a floppy from somewhere? I temporarily canibalized one from the family rig to get my SATA stuff running.

27-October-04, 02:44 PM		#3 (permalink)
Yeoman Apex Techie Lite	Goto your local computerstore, hopefully a retailer like wal-mart or Best buy, purchase the drive and bring it home. Install drivers, return to store. Return drive to get money back and tell them that your computer just bombed out and you don't need the drive any more. Tell them your gonna look at the new computers. Look at new pc's decide you don't want one. Go home... Mission accomplished. Dollars spent on drive 0$. A little dishonest but it works for those short on cash. ~Yeoman

27-October-04, 09:23 PM		#5 (permalink)
$SOLID$ Necro Mastah Overclocker	You are going to need a floppy drive! (I broke down and picked one up for 15$ when I got my Raptor) You can download the drivers from the Motherboards website and make your own disk.

27-October-04, 09:32 PM		#6 (permalink)
KraftMayo Apex Techie II	yeah, there's no way to get around the floppy disk thing. damn the man

29-October-04, 08:05 PM		#7 (permalink)
Rjupiter Apex Advanced Techie	thanx for the info guys I got xp to install.