Well the aged wine analogy is simply a flawed comparison. We all know how cheap CDRs are as well. CD media is at least an order of magnitude more reliable. Who cares if you don't fill up the MB capacity; most hardware vendors stopped shipping their bundled software on floppy disks years ago. I'm not saying floppy drives are useless in fact I just bought one , but agreement is fairly universal that they are not the best solution around.
They're certainly unnecessary for the majority of new PCs. Most of your argument points simply don't hold up. Jun 2, 1 0 0. I have the exact same situation. It's too late sitting here to go out to compusa and buy a floppy. Who knew that Microsoft still expects people to have a floppy drive. What's this talk about floppy drives still being useful? I haven't used a floppy disk in five years, ever since i learned how to ftp. It seems kind of silly to have an installation process depend on a specific hardware component.
I got a CD. Oh well Nov 24, 1, 0 0. Originally posted by: EeyoreX Personally, I still find it "chuckle worthy". Confused Elite Member. Nov 13, 14, 0 0. I have a solution for this. It's not too pretty, but it allows you to get past the text based portion of the setup without a floppy drive. Otherwise, copy this line, and change the first bit to the name of your. Last reply by jackshack Unsolved. When do I insert the CD for my Dell 17" flat panel monitor?
Thanking you,. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Replies 6. This restores the computer to it's Factory Settings. Post the issue in the appropriate Board, where they will be answered. C3PO5 5 Tungsten. Hi You have to have a floppy drives to set up the Raid drives thats all XP will look for is the floppy drive disc with the sata drivers on it!
Or you have to slipstream the drivers onto your XP CD! You will not need any other CD,s until you get to the windows desktop then you will install them from there. If you already have a folder on you hard drive with the XP CD contents, point to that.
Click Next once done, and Next again to skip the Presets screen. If there are multiple choices, select the correct drivers to integrate. For example, do not select 64 bit drivers on a 32 bit Windows XP. Click OK when done selecting the drivers. Click Next. Make sure Textmode driver is the selected mode and to choose the exact type of hardware chipset in your system. Select the drivers you require and click OK and then click Next, and finally OK to start the process.
Once the integration has completed, click Next to be taken to the ISO creation and burning screen. Try this before anything else 5 STAR! Any other ideas? Raymond, I see that this tutorial has been here for many years, and I am certain that your advice here has been used many more times than you will ever know.
So few people take the time to say thanks. Top quality tutorial, and it worked a treat. Thank you a million times! NLite seems to be good. I was looking for solution to slipstream the drivers. My laptop HDD is crashed and its not available in the market 2. I will update post tomorrow, once I done it!! Thanks again. Dude-you are genius!!! Your instructions to integrate raid drivers was easy and not hard to understand , thank you very much for all the information.
This was a lifesaver. Saved me lot of headache and pain. What a relief!!!! I am absolutely amazed at the nlite software.
It is wonderful free utility. I was almost going to buy a pack of floppy disk and external floppy drive. Saved me money! Excellent demonstration. You should definitely be compensated for saving all of us further headache and pain. I would not mind donating. It helped having clear and concise directions. I hope someone else in the same situation finds these directions..
Thanks a million. I am really happy. I dont know how to thank you. And by the way, good luck for you all. It really helps me much. Thank you again. I just want to say thanks, your tutorial help me out with the headache i had.
It works fine Thanks for your support. Wow, perfect tutorial. Wasted hours to try with a floppy disk, driver would load with F6 in setup, but wouldnt after the XP setup started to copy the files to the hard drive. Thanks for the help! This article helped me tremendously.
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