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Might be a foolish question but is it possible to use a CD for those, as opposed to a floppy disk? My SFF doesn't have a floppy drive.
SATA Drivers at OS Installation
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Sorry...
Hi,
To instal an operating system with Serial ATA you must use a floppy disk drive to load up the device drivers, especially that most PCs that come from large organisations like PC World come with Serial ATA drives and not floppy disks. Buy an external USB floppy drive. Windows will be able to load drivers from that.
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Hi,
To instal an operating system with Serial ATA you must use a floppy disk drive to load up the device drivers, especially that most PCs that come from large organisations like PC World come with Serial ATA drives and not floppy disks. Buy an external USB floppy drive. Windows will be able to load drivers from that.
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use nLite to integrate SATA drivers to your Windows install
use nLite to integrate SATA drivers to your Windows install
For NF4 boards, you only need a floppy if you intend on running a RAID setup. For normal SATA operation, you don't need a floppy. However nLite is a really good util if you were going to use a RAID setup, had a board that requires a floppy or want to do cool stuff (cut down the disc side, integrate drives / hotfixes).
Nope, not going to be making use of RAID. And what's nLite? Sounds handy. So if I'm not using RAID I probably won't need drivers?
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Nlite is a program that allows you to add and remove stuff from the windows install. You basically go through a wizard, and remove any rubbish you don't need, add drivers, service packs etc and burn the new windows install disk. Saves you loads of time adding all the stuff after the install. Is your motherboars an Nforce4 based board? If so, then your unlikely to need SATA drivers.
Probably. Google for nLite, it lets you add in drivers, integrate hotfixes, patch certain things and generally changes bits of a Windows install and burns it to a new cd.
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P.S Just saw the sig, Sonata Arctica are perhaps the best band ever
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I didnt need drivers on my nforce 4 board,i was a bit worried I would but it just recognised it np 
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On my nforce 4 sli premium it didnt ask for a floppy, it picked up all my sata drives itself.