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Old 02-24-2007, 10:30 PM
John John
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Re: Installing third party driver without floppy drive

It's burning a Windows CD with additional drivers, service pack or
hotfixes incorporated into the CD.

How to Add OEM Plug and Play Drivers to Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314479/

A connected USB floppy disk drive does not work when you press F6 to
install mass storage drivers during the Windows XP installation process
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916196

Combining Windows XP with Service Pack 2 for reinstallation (Part 1:
Introduction)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894947/

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

John


John wrote:

> Sorry for being naive. What is slipstreaming?
>
> Thanks
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> Regards
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> "John John" <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message
> news:%23BeZn6JWHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
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>>Temporarily fit a diskette drive to the computer or slipstream the drivers
>>onto the Windows XP CD. The setup program WILL NOT accept the drivers
>>from flash drives or other external storage devices, they MUST be supplied
>>on floppy diskette or slipstreamed.
>>
>>Limited OEM driver support is available with F6 during Windows XP and
>>Windows Server 2003 setup
>>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314859
>>
>>John
>>
>>John wrote:
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>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>I need to install win xp on a drive attached to a Q-Tec Serial ATA 13434
>>>card, which is the secondary drive in the pc. Problem is that the pc in
>>>question does not have a floppy drive like many other PCs these days. How
>>>is one to load the drivers for this card during win xp installation?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Regards

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Old 02-24-2007, 10:30 PM