Do You Have a Floppy Drive?

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  • Chewy
    Super Moderator
    • Nov 2003
    • 18971

    #16
    Originally Posted by anonymez
    well how in the heck do you install XP then?

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    • anonymez
      Super Moderator
      • Mar 2004
      • 5525

      #17
      lol i have one, but its just gathering dust in the closet. i only ever use it for xp insallation
      Last edited by anonymez; 17 Dec 2005, 07:59 PM.
      "What were the things in Gremlins called?" - Karl Pilkington

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      • Jack Lurker
        Oh Bugger! It's bust again!
        • Jun 2005
        • 376

        #18
        I have a floppy drive but i've never got round to installing it.Can I vote yes and no then?
        Jack


        The best thing for trees is a bloody big axe! Works for stupidity too!!
        You have a problem? Search the forums, you 'aint the first person to have your problem thats for sure!!
        There's a bloke called Blutach here somewhere, check out his signature. Loads of useful info in it!

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        • anonymez
          Super Moderator
          • Mar 2004
          • 5525

          #19
          the poll question is "Is there a Floppy Drive in your MAIN PC?"

          mine is never installed either
          "What were the things in Gremlins called?" - Karl Pilkington

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          • Chewy
            Super Moderator
            • Nov 2003
            • 18971

            #20
            Originally Posted by anonymez
            lol i have one, but its just gathering dust in the closet. i only ever use it for xp insallation
            side off case, go into bios, dadadada, shucks I thought you were gonna
            tell me a trick on how to get XP to pull the sata drives off something else.
            I'd settle for a usb floppy.

            or do you slipstream the sata drivers into an administrative install
            folder and make a cd?

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            • anonymez
              Super Moderator
              • Mar 2004
              • 5525

              #21
              i thought about slipstreaming into the xp cd once or twice, but just never got around to doing it (there was nothing wrong with my xp backup cd, plus i'm a lazy person)

              i also wanted to add SP2 to it...
              "What were the things in Gremlins called?" - Karl Pilkington

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              • Chewy
                Super Moderator
                • Nov 2003
                • 18971

                #22
                do it at least once, you'll never get as good an install from the upgrade
                route, I did it with SP1 long ago and far away, put off the SP2 one far too long.
                W2K was in sp 3 or 4 when MS had to incorporate this procedure, system
                administrators trying to run a repair disk with their original W2k cd on
                computers upgraded with service packs wouldn't even boot. And when
                you PO these guys, bad news!
                Typing the run commands was horrible, a friend almost busted a gut when
                I was talking to him about it, it was part of his course work, he said
                copy and paste!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do'H

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                • anonymez
                  Super Moderator
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 5525

                  #23
                  lol might try it next time i do a clean install. guess it does beat dusting the floppy drive...
                  "What were the things in Gremlins called?" - Karl Pilkington

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                  • Chewy
                    Super Moderator
                    • Nov 2003
                    • 18971

                    #24
                    Most of the time people criticize repair disk, they are repairing with
                    the wrong disk. Do'H

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                    • atifsh
                      Lord of Digital Video
                      Lord of Digital Video
                      • May 2003
                      • 1534

                      #25
                      my box doesnt have floopy drive and i use sata and dont need drivers as im using xp-sp2.
                      for small files i use usb disk or cdr / dvd-r for larger files to move around
                      Seems like as soon you buy somehing, v. 2 comes out 1.5 times as fast!..!

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                      • atifsh
                        Lord of Digital Video
                        Lord of Digital Video
                        • May 2003
                        • 1534

                        #26
                        i found best repair disk is what i made after installing windows fresh with everything i want and then imaging it, like ghost / Acronis
                        Seems like as soon you buy somehing, v. 2 comes out 1.5 times as fast!..!

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                        • nwg
                          Left *****
                          • Jun 2003
                          • 5196

                          #27
                          I haven't written to a floppy for about four years and my main pc hasn't got one and is over two years old.

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