Installing XP RAID drivers without a floppy drive?

Roll · 17 Jan 2009 at 22:37

Basically I no longer want to bother with a floppy drive in my system because it hardly ever gets used, but the problem I have is how to install the RAID drivers during Windows XP setup (where you press F6 etc.). I've tried using an external floppy, but no matter what I try it's not detected as drive A:

The best I've come up with is to temporarily connect an internal floppy drive during setup then disconnect it when it's done.

Does anyone know how to get around this untidy process?

Thanks for any help

Greenlizard0 · 17 Jan 2009 at 22:42

It's what I had to do for XP, at least in Vista you can use anything you want.

ChrisLX200 · 17 Jan 2009 at 22:51

Sounds like you found a use for your floppy drive then

Only other way is to slipstream the drivers into a custom XP install disk.

Roll · 17 Jan 2009 at 23:49

ChrisLX200 said:
Sounds like you found a use for your floppy drive then

Only other way is to slipstream the drivers into a custom XP install disk.

Cheers, I'll give it a try.

It seems like you use nLite to do the slipstreaming?

SinaiSound · 17 Jan 2009 at 23:52

Roll said:
Cheers, I'll give it a try.

It seems like you use nLite to do the slipstreaming?

Yep, it's really easy

remy87 · 17 Jan 2009 at 23:53

you can also if you have a spare usb memory around
make it to a floppy disk

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=671353&mpage=1&key=&#671353
same principle dont follow the bios update just the part where u make the usb memory to a floppy disk

Roll · 18 Jan 2009 at 13:53

Cheers for replies.

I managed to slipstream the drivers this morning using nLite so it looks like I'm sorted.

Many thanks