Asus P4P800 SE and Sata HDD

scott.holmes · 12 Mar 2006 at 15:57

Evening All

Ive just put together this rig, but decided for the first time not to use a Floppy drive, i put a 7In1 Card reader in there instead.

My main drive is going to be a 80gb WD Sata with 2 x 320gb satas for storage, but here lies my problem.. When i come to install this tomorrow, im going to need to install the Sata Drivers from floppy at XP Setup, but i dont have a floppy drive.

How can i get round this?

m3csl2004 · 12 Mar 2006 at 16:14

what windows xp disc do you have?

if you have 1 with intergrated sp2 you wont need to, if you dotn then you will, i think you fill be able 2 you said card reader or a usb key

scott.holmes · 12 Mar 2006 at 16:23

Hey

I have Retail XP Pro with SP2, so should that be OK then? I have a USB Key as well, but it only ever asks for a floppy, never seems to find anything else.

m3csl2004 · 12 Mar 2006 at 22:22

youll be fine mate, sp2 natively supports sata

scott.holmes · 12 Mar 2006 at 22:25

Excellent, thanks for that

Will post how i go tomorrow, as long as the bits arrive!!