Thread: reformatting alienware laptop, trouble with raid driver

Originally Posted by ahdrum

how i can successfully install the raid driver?

can you retrieve the drivers from the vista instalation or have you already formated the drive

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to get rid of vista

can you find the drivers on the net ?
can you burn the downloaded drivers to CD / DVD on another machine ?

Originally Posted by ahdrum

m guessing there is a way.

yeah v v easy, just burn the drivers to a CD / DVD on another system

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when XP asks for the drivers, remove the XP CD and insert the CD / DVD you burned, then replace XP CD in the drive

Edit: most common burning software is Nero

Originally Posted by ahdrum

it was suggested to get an NEC or sony external floppy. Think it will work?

you don't need a floppy,just burn the driver to a CD / DVD on another system and replace the XP CD with the driver CD when prompted by the XP install, then enter the path to your CD drive (usually D:\path\to\CD) then insert the XP CD when driver installation has finished

Originally Posted by ahdrum

just to clarify, you can do this in the Pre-OS setup right?

yeah, on another system (a different PC with a CD / DVD writer installed & working) are you familiar with burning files to CD / DVD's ?

Originally Posted by ahdrum

i decided to make a slipstream cd of windows xp with the raid driver included on the cd. We will see if it works.

good luck, i have never integrated drivers while slipstreaming an XP CD, just find a good how to: on the net

Originally Posted by ahdrum

Slipstream Tutorial

great, i've also added that url to my bookmarks, and will pass it on if i think it will be useful

Edit: BTW: thankies