Thanks Frank and DL XP only supports 3 USB floppy drives they are hard to find
The following USB floppy disk drives are included in the Txtsetup.sif file
and are therefore supported for use during Windows XP installation:
Plug and Play ID USB floppy disk drive model
USB\VID_03EE&PID_6901 Mitsumi
USB\VID_057B&PID_0000 Y-E Data; Sony part number 09K9835
USB\VID_0644&PID_0000 TEAC; IBM option part number 27L4226, FRU 05K9283

I have tried slipstreaming the driver in to XP but so far all I have are 6
coasters. I must be doing something wrong. Anybody know the right way to do
it??Thanks again

"Frank" wrote:

> "davlyn" <davlyn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:41487A17-85EE-4EA2-85A0-BB2EEAE0AB01@microsoft.com...
> >I have the same problem a new Dell XPS 720 with Vista Ultimate, after a
> >week
> > of trying I`ve give up. Partitioned the drive today and after burning the
> > raid driver I required started to load my old XP disc, pressed F6 for
> > third
> > party driver and when it asked me to press "S" to install drivers it kept
> > saying place the floppy in drive A .
> > I do not have a floppy drive so unless someone has any ideas it looks like
> > I
> > shall have to switch off raid. Anybody know how???
>
> Purchase an external USB floppy drive. Check to see if you can find
> the XP drivers for your Dell. If not you might run into other problems.
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