Attempting to install RAID drivers with F6 during setup. There's no floppy
drive. If I buy an external USB floppy drive will it work during setup or
am I forced to do a slipstream version of the CD. Thanks.

"Westborough" <abuse@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Attempting to install RAID drivers with F6 during setup. There's no
floppy
> drive. If I buy an external USB floppy drive will it work during setup or
> am I forced to do a slipstream version of the CD. Thanks.
>
>


During the installation...the installed does load USB drivers...so it should
work.

I'd just install an internal floppy drive though...
they cost a lot less than the USB floppies...

Westborough wrote:
> Attempting to install RAID drivers with F6 during setup. There's no floppy
> drive. If I buy an external USB floppy drive will it work during setup or
> am I forced to do a slipstream version of the CD. Thanks.
>
>
It depends if your bios has settings for a USB floppy or not.

John.

In my experience a USB Floppy works on initial call to locate a 3rd
party driver but at a second call to reload the driver it will fail to load.
I have a Sony USB floppy and while handy it just isn't that reliable
for setting up Windows XP.

I'd just slipstream my XP install CD to include the Raid driver. There
are a number of automated tools that can help you embed the driver
and build a disk.

I've used nLite to create embedded XP install disks. The guide for it
is found here:
http://www.nliteos.com/guide/

"Westborough" <abuse@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Attempting to install RAID drivers with F6 during setup. There's no
> floppy drive. If I buy an external USB floppy drive will it work during
> setup or am I forced to do a slipstream version of the CD. Thanks.
>

It's a notebook, so the USB will work.


"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Westborough" <abuse@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:%23Tr0yghHIHA.5208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Attempting to install RAID drivers with F6 during setup. There's no
> floppy
>> drive. If I buy an external USB floppy drive will it work during setup
>> or
>> am I forced to do a slipstream version of the CD. Thanks.
>>
>>
>
>
> During the installation...the installed does load USB drivers...so it
> should
> work.
>
> I'd just install an internal floppy drive though...
> they cost a lot less than the USB floppies...
>
>

Helpful. I checked and BIOS will support it. thanks.


"John" <zen@zen.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Westborough wrote:
>> Attempting to install RAID drivers with F6 during setup. There's no
>> floppy drive. If I buy an external USB floppy drive will it work during
>> setup or am I forced to do a slipstream version of the CD. Thanks.
> It depends if your bios has settings for a USB floppy or not.
>
> John.

I'm there now. Thanks for the help.


"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> In my experience a USB Floppy works on initial call to locate a 3rd
> party driver but at a second call to reload the driver it will fail to
> load.
> I have a Sony USB floppy and while handy it just isn't that reliable
> for setting up Windows XP.
>
> I'd just slipstream my XP install CD to include the Raid driver. There
> are a number of automated tools that can help you embed the driver
> and build a disk.
>
> I've used nLite to create embedded XP install disks. The guide for it
> is found here:
> http://www.nliteos.com/guide/
>
> "Westborough" <abuse@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:%23Tr0yghHIHA.5208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Attempting to install RAID drivers with F6 during setup. There's no
>> floppy drive. If I buy an external USB floppy drive will it work during
>> setup or am I forced to do a slipstream version of the CD. Thanks.
>>
>
>

Only a handful of USB drives are compatible with the F6 driver
installation method: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916196

John

Westborough wrote:

> Attempting to install RAID drivers with F6 during setup. There's no floppy
> drive. If I buy an external USB floppy drive will it work during setup or
> am I forced to do a slipstream version of the CD. Thanks.
>
>

Westborough wrote:
> Attempting to install RAID drivers with F6 during setup. There's no floppy
> drive. If I buy an external USB floppy drive will it work during setup or
> am I forced to do a slipstream version of the CD. Thanks.
>
>


The USB Floppy drive should work at startup.

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