SATA w/o floppy?

[rlocone]

Hello All!

I got a serial ATA drive today. But I don't have a floppy... Well, I did but it was in an old system and didn't work well. So, it went out w/ the old case. Is there another way to do a clean install of XP sp2 w/ sata?

Thanks

[BAM]

Perhaps look at the "sticky" things under device drivers !??

[Aaron]

Are you sure you need a floppy, you don't generally need one unless you're doing SATA RAID. Single SATA drives can be read as an IDE drive and Windows XP setup has no problem with it. But I guess this can depend on the motherboard.

[peachy]

It depends on the motherboard. If you are booting the SATA drive from an onboard Promise controller or the SIIG one then you definitely need F6 and a floppy or an unattended CD with the drivers slipstreamed in. The Intel ICH6 SATA controller doesn't need the extra drivers unless you have a RAID setup.

[rlocone]

It depends on the motherboard. If you are booting the SATA drive from an onboard Promise controller or the SIIG one

SIIG is exactly what I have. I'm getting a floppy drive today. Useless, I never use a floppy for anything anymore. We now have Boot CDs, recovery CDs, etc.

[Aaron]

You can integrate the drivers into your Windows XP CD, but this requires it to have unattended files as well, which I'm sure you can keep to a minimum so its not unattended.