Sata drivers

[yogi55]

I have a sata drive but to have my mother board or windows identify it,windows wants a floppy installed during a windows setup.Is there another way of getting this done?

[katzdvd]

Did your mainboard come w/ a driver CD? If so, you could copy the files from the CD over to a floppy.

[techreactor]

I have a sata drive but to have my mother board or windows identify it,windows wants a floppy installed during a windows setup.Is there another way of getting this done?

If you have the WinXP with SP2 installation CD, it will recognize it by default.

[Chewy]

it doesn't on my three kinds of motherboards

[Gary D]

Would a USB connected floppy work??

[Chewy]

Would a USB connected floppy work??

one friend said he got it to work for something like this, but we never could duplicate

[mill]

This is what i was told i will have to use if i ever reinstall windows, Its some kind of generator for a floppy,or somthing , i hope i will never have to reinstall

[Chewy]

just extract those to a folder, then copy fold contents to a floppy

read the directions

[mill]

I did all that i gen. a floppy, the part im worried about is when i go to install, when do i know when to load the drivers? The only time i had to reinstall windows is on this hp and it comes with 7 reinstalltion cds ,easy, so ill cross that bridge when i get to it hope your here to help when the time comes, thanks chewy

[AlienX69]

@ mill .... Not positive, but I think that is taken care of in those 7 reinstall discs. Don't think you'll have to worry about the floppy issue ... guess it might depend on how old that box is ?

Edit:

Worse case is you will need the floopy, no big deal, other than having to have a floppy drive installed. F6 is the key when prompted by XP install.

See HERE, plus you could google a few others !!

[mill]

Thanks Alienx69,