Okay, so I'm finally wiping clean my newest computer and trying to install Win XP Pro on it. Booting from an SP2 disc solved the problem of the installer not recognizing the PCIe card, but now it's not recognizing my Hard Drive (it's like an 80GB Maxtor piece of shit, nothing too fancy).
I'm assuming I need to get the driver discs for the (S)ATA controller, but my problem is that this computer doesn't have a floppy drive. Any suggestions? Can you burn them to a CD and will the windows installer recognize it?
Problem with fresh XP Pro install
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Problem with fresh XP Pro install
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Re: Problem with fresh XP Pro install
As long as you make your CD the 1st bootable device in your BIOS settings and then make a bootable CD and place the drivers on that CD it should work.Sylvus wrote:Okay, so I'm finally wiping clean my newest computer and trying to install Win XP Pro on it. Booting from an SP2 disc solved the problem of the installer not recognizing the PCIe card, but now it's not recognizing my Hard Drive (it's like an 80GB Maxtor piece of shit, nothing too fancy).
I'm assuming I need to get the driver discs for the (S)ATA controller, but my problem is that this computer doesn't have a floppy drive. Any suggestions? Can you burn them to a CD and will the windows installer recognize it?
You might even be able to use a USB little mini keychain type drive. New MBs can boot to those as well I think.
Usually don't need to do anything too fancy unless you've enabled the SATA RAID in your BIOS...
If it really needs a driver disk, it's probably fastest to hijack a floppy from another machine temporarily...
Your other option is to fiddle about creating a new install CD w/ the drivers on it, like http://unattended.msfn.org/intermediate ... s/raid.htm
If it really needs a driver disk, it's probably fastest to hijack a floppy from another machine temporarily...
Your other option is to fiddle about creating a new install CD w/ the drivers on it, like http://unattended.msfn.org/intermediate ... s/raid.htm
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