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Not so sure · 12-10-2007, 06:01 AM

Here I am with a brand new Seagate 320GB SATA drive ready to mount in my system, and I find out XP requires installation of SATA drivers via a floppy.

Who has a floppy drive these days? What is with these people? I guess we can blame Microsquash for it, since Vista can load the drivers from USB or optical discs. Grrrr.....

So, after fretting and searching for about 2 days, I found this:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Insta...F6-47807.shtml

I already knew about this, because I thought I'd slipstream SP2, but I didn't know it would work for these drivers:

http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/

I am going to try this trick, and I'll let you all know how I fare! (If I can figure out which SATA drivers are correct for my chipset - I will never deal with VIA again, their support website is pitiful).

Let the drum roll begin...

12-10-2007, 06:01 AM	#1 (permalink)
Not so sure Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Seattle Posts: 10 OS: XP Pro SP2	Solution for installing SATA HDD w/o a floppy? Here I am with a brand new Seagate 320GB SATA drive ready to mount in my system, and I find out XP requires installation of SATA drivers via a floppy. Who has a floppy drive these days? What is with these people? I guess we can blame Microsquash for it, since Vista can load the drivers from USB or optical discs. Grrrr..... So, after fretting and searching for about 2 days, I found this: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Insta...F6-47807.shtml I already knew about this, because I thought I'd slipstream SP2, but I didn't know it would work for these drivers: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/ I am going to try this trick, and I'll let you all know how I fare! (If I can figure out which SATA drivers are correct for my chipset - I will never deal with VIA again, their support website is pitiful). Let the drum roll begin...