any ideas on how to solve this? How do I get XP onto the SATA drive without a floppy? Where did you get XP driver? Driver for SATA controller on laptop? You could try with a USB floppy to install the motherboard drivers. Mike. At this point you could...

on my C: drive. I added a partition D:for XP Pro. But when I try to boot from the XP Pro installation disk, I get a message that it cannot be loaded because I already have a later version of the program installed. My laptop has no floppy drive, so how...

Installing XP on a laptop with no floppy/cd. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () Hi I hope someone here can give me some help. Basically, I have a laptop which has no CD Drive and no floppy. I have both drives as usb attachments,...

Migrate one program from Win95 to WinXP. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () I need to migrate one program from a Windows 95 machine to a Windows XP machine. The original installation disks have been lost and the program seems to not...

Reason is XP is playing up and somehow all the installation discs for laptop have been lost or thrown alway - such is life! I have 98 on CD but of course laptop has no floppy drive to do all the fdisking and formating malarky. What is the best way to install...

its to get the RAID drivers from Sony website for that hard drive "if its still original HD from the laptop" those drivers you copy them into a floppy disk "external floppy because laptops dont have floppy drives" and then when you start installing xp hit F6...

old and it has a floppy. Again Thanks. Foxhole "Ben Myers" wrote: > Copy and paste the following text to Notepad and save it to a floppy as > "a:\repair.reg". Start the Thinkpad in "Command Prompt", insert the >floppy, type "regedit a:\repair.reg"...

when it is "Installing WIndows". an error that prevents windows being installed. i click "OK" to see the log file. here is what it says. i am type/copying this from the laptop that is sittin next to me. "Error: installation failed: D:\1386\asms. Error...

I recently did a complete reinstall on a Compaq Armada 7800 which came with CD-ROM but no Floppy. Had to do quite a lot of Google research as HP-Compaq's Support Site is not detailed enough. Steps I did: 1. Got a laptop floppy drive from Ebay and...