How do i install sata drivers without a floppy drive

Though it is possible to boot-up from a USB adapter, but then the next problem comes up. I think Dell should recommend people to take a floppydrive when installing other or new OS.

Bootable CD's are perfect, untill you need external drivers to be installed. So basically you have to re-load from scratch if you decide you want to migrate to RAID. XP enters setup and now you can define on which partition you want to install. Because I wanted to have a clean install, I choose to delete the current partition and let XP create a new one. So guess what. XP cannot allocate the complete amount of diskspace and I loose 24Gb!!!

So I picked an other computer, ripped the floppy drive and build it in my Dimension Also please exercise your best judgment when posting in the forums--revealing personal information such as your e-mail address, telephone number, and address is not recommended. Please note: Do not post advertisements, offensive material, profanity, or personal attacks. Please remember to be considerate of other members. All submitted content is subject to our Terms Of Use. By simon. I want to do a clean install with XP Pro but it has an unsupported disk controller.

Being a new laptop, it doesn't have a FDD. Is there a way to install the third party driver without using a floppy, or am I going to have to invest in a USB floppy drive? I have searched the MS Knowledge base and Googled for it but can't find anything. I wrote an iso, which I then burned, but when I boot it, it doesn't see the hard drive.

I don't have access to a USB floppy. Thanks, CJon. I'd love to hear otherwise. Does BIOs see the hdd? I just want to make sure that it's actually a sata driver issue and not something else. There is a guy named Maher that released a Windows xp professional CD with a bunch of sata drives.

You may try looking the following up on Google: "windows xp pro sp3 maher" It's the first result for me. You can use nLite to roll the sata drivers into your install disk. Hello, Try using Gparted to partition and format the Hard Drive first. Then see if the Xp install disk with the slipstreamed drivers will see the drive. It's great if you like to reinstall windows often. Truder , Jan 2, Seems like slipstreaming is the only way.

Thanks for the help though. Inspired , Jan 3, Yup it is true, my own sata drive works straight away, plug and play.