Do I need floppy drive for new build?

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Planning to build a pc in the next few weeks with a SATA hard drive. When installing win xp is there any way to get the sata drivers it needs other than buying myself a floppy drive too, to store the drivers on?

The reason i ask is that i haven't used a floppy disk in a long time so can see no need for a floppy drive other than for installing windows for the first time.

cheers.
 
You can integrate the drivers into your windows disc, rendering a floppy drive pointless :)

I'm not actually familiar with how you'd go about this, but I'm, sure there are loads of people on here that are and that can help you. Try a google?
 
Ok, the motherboard I am planning to use is a Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3. According to the spec page on gigabyte's website it has GIGABYTE SATAII controller. However on the driver page for that motherboard it only has a section for Sata Raid http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/...rboard&ProductID=2314&ProductName=GA-965P-DS3
is that sata raid driver the one I want to be adding or is there another one for just sata? I'm only planning on using one hard drive. a seagate 7200.10 320gb
 
MeatLoaf said:
I dont have a floppy drive in my mpc although i do have one to hand for bios updates mainly
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I gave up using floppies for BIOS flashes, I'd rather do it in windows, I don't trust some creaky ancient floppy drive and easily damaged disks not to corrupt my BIOS.
 
Minstadave said:
I gave up using floppies for BIOS flashes, I'd rather do it in windows, I don't trust some creaky ancient floppy drive and easily damaged disks not to corrupt my BIOS.
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Exactly...
Either a FAT32 partition on HDD, or a USB Pen - Basically anything other than usung a floppy disk for something which may involve your PC not booting!
(Floppies are the most unreliable media still in use)

Still don't like doing it in Windows though. ¬.¬

As said before - integrate into SP2 CD - No need for drivers.
 
Echo toxin said:
Just installed this board meself - you don't need a driver for ordinary SATA. Windows sees it is just another IDE controller.
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i like the way some manufacterers do this, shame they didn't make it a standard!
 
Captain Fizz said:
As said before - integrate into SP2 CD - No need for drivers.
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thats not 100% correct, many sata chipset are not covered by SP2, like the nvidia and silicon image ones
 
One interesting take on the whole floppy drve thing, si to mount it internally in a hardrive bay. I know it means you still have to have one, but at least it doesn't have to be visible.
 
messiah khan said:
One interesting take on the whole floppy drve thing, si to mount it internally in a hardrive bay. I know it means you still have to have one, but at least it doesn't have to be visible.
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A very good point.

When I use mine I just dangle it out the side of my case by the cables :cool:
 
bledd. said:
thats not 100% correct, many sata chipset are not covered by SP2, like the nvidia and silicon image ones
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I think he means you have to integrate the drivers into the XP SP2 cd, then you don't need them on disc.
 
Minstadave said:
I think he means you have to integrate the drivers into the XP SP2 cd, then you don't need them on disc.
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Indeed...
And whilst there, modify the setup so it has the network pre-configured, tweaks applied, your serial no in, user acc setup etc.

Then it's stick in the CD... Drivers already there, name the PC... Desktop.
Only need to press "Next" once. :D
 
you won't need one when Vista is released it can get its drivers ( AKA f6 ) from a cd or usb stick



MS has wised up at last, ditch the floppy i say
 
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