Problem installing XP

[Nick07]

Hi Guys

I hope somone can help me here.

I need to install Xp on a IBM R60, in the setup I need to load the SATA drivers but the notebook doesnt have a floppy drive. How do I get past this?

Any suggestions?

 

[medicnick83]

Put the drivers on a Flash drive - Install them later.

 

[Nick07]

But during the setup you need them otherwise XP doesent detect the Hdd? If I put them on a flash drive will the setup find the divers on the flash disk?

 

[Dange--Russ]

You need to get a USB floppy drive, they about 220 rond. or Use N-lite to include the drivers in the windows installation and burn a new install cd

 

[medicnick83]

What about setting the HDD from SATA to IDE in the BIOS.
That's what I do with mine, it detects as IDE drives instead of SATA/RAID.

 

[Nick07]

Thanks gdiza!!!!

It worked and I am happy with that as a solution.
PS. Does this mean I dont get the sata speed? not that it's important as the laptop is just used for basic stuff....

 

[Asha'man X]

@ Nick07

Congrats on getting it up and running.

You don't really lose any speed when running the drive in IDE mode, especially for a laptop drive. You do however lose some SATA specific features, but it's not like you are going to be hot swapping the drive or anything.

Vista's one really great feature during setup is that you can add drivers using a flash or other disk. I'm neither here nor there on Vista, but that feature was one that was way overdue. I hate Xp's insistence of having a stiffy drive to install hard disk drivers.

Happy computing

 

[Ryder_JHB]

There is another way to do this which has never failed me! Use nlite to integrate the relevant drivers for your particular controller into the xp source files - It then allows you to re-burn a custom iso image back to cd, which now has your drivers integrated! So all you need to do, is boot the system from the "custom xp" you have created, and bob's your aunty!

 

[GuRu]

Hello Aunty Bob

 

[medicnick83]

Thanks gdiza!!!!

Pleasure.

 

[proximiti99]

There's plenty of threads out for this, just search. The nLite software method works for me