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Installing 3rd party drivers without a floppy disk drive

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thefunkeymonkey   07-04-2007 at 05:48:01 PM

I originally wanted to install xp on my sata drive. However its not discoverd by windows during the setup, I placed the sata/raid drivers on a cd in the hope that windows install could load the drivers from it though it appears windows install will only install sata/raid drivers from a floppy disk. I dont actually have a floppy disk drive, is there some way around this (other than forking out £10 for a floppy drive and cable im only ever going to use when installing os's)?

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Zoron   07-05-2007 at 05:04:52 AM
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With XP I think you're out of luck... the drivers can only be loaded with a floppy. There is a way to streamline them into the installation... but I don't know the procedure. It will involve making a new XP CD from the one you currently have... and obviously it will also involve the SATA drivers.

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thefunkeymonkey   07-07-2007 at 11:34:19 PM
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cheers zoron, done a bit of searching on the net and theres a prog named nlite that sounds promising.

http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html

There are other drivers I wouldnt mind sticking on the cd with it but as rock's website is down - been down all day! Tis a cheap manufacturer, get what you pay for i guess.

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edklite   07-08-2007 at 12:51:57 AM
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yes nlite is good which is why its on KLT website ;)

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