RAID/SATA drivers for Vista

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I have recieved my copy of Vista but cannot install it because i have no floppy drive at the moment to load the SATA/RAID drivers during installation.

But i had a thought. Is there any other way i can load the drivers on vista, apart from using a floppy drive? IE. ext hard drive or memory stick??

thanks
 
vista will look at any media for drivers


eg usb stick , cd/dvd , hard disk or compact flash


to sum it up it will look at any storage device connected to you pc , providing that you have the drivers
 
Cos, with XP when you first install it, you HAVE to have the sata drivers on floppy or you can't do anything.

Maybe we're thinking about two different points in the installation?

I mean just after i've formatted my HD and put the vista disc in for the first time.
 
Gaygle said:
Cos, with XP when you first install it, you HAVE to have the sata drivers on floppy or you can't do anything.

Maybe we're thinking about two different points in the installation?

I mean just after i've formatted my HD and put the vista disc in for the first time.
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its different with vista, when xp was made, they didn't forsee SATA connectors, only geeks were supposed to be using RAIDs so they just used floppy support only :p

in vista, you can put the drivers on any media and it'll take them from it, chances are your controller is supported by vista already though
 
The text-mode setup like in Windows XP has gone now - it's all run from a new pre-installation environment. You could format/repartition your hard disk from within Vista setup itself.
 
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