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I don't have a floppy (A) drive for the motherboard/ notebook sata drivers - how can I get XP to look elsewhere?

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  • Windows XP
  • Floppy Disk
  • Drivers
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April 20, 2014 11:03:35 AM

Trying to install XP as a dual boot system as I have several pieces of software that will not work under W7. No floppy drive available and I have been down the slip-stream the drivers into making a new bootable CD route without success - I still end up with a blue screen telling me it cannot identify the hard drive. I would move to newer programs but one is my PCB layout package and all my libraries of parts would need to be re-made so that is a non-starter.

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April 20, 2014 11:06:32 AM

Either buy an external USB floppy drive, or put the files on a flash drive and start the computer up with that in a USB port.
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April 20, 2014 11:07:08 AM

You can download drivers from the internet and install them that way. I don't think floppy drives have been needed for driver installation in at least 10 years.
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April 20, 2014 11:12:24 AM

He's trying to install XP; he needs the drivers.
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