Hey guys I have a quick question When performing a new installation of Windows you are prompted to press F6 to install hard drive controller drivers. Am I right in assuming these drivers must be provided on a floppy disk for this to work? Can I, for example, store the drivers on a USB drive and point the Windows installation at it? Instinct tells me that only a floppy drive will work, in which case my friend is screwed! Although that might not be so bad because I've installed Ubuntu on his laptop for the time being (which installed without a glitch)
yep a floppy drive will be required or alternatively you could [google]slipstream SATA drivers[/google] with XP. I don't think you can point it to look at other storage devices, if I can remember correctly.
mega, do you feel like a plank ?, cos, ages ago didn't you tell me about slipstreaming, back when i used XP[ot]i know it was you who suggested i use *nix, tw4t, but seriously, thanks, i've now had a sheet of wood installed to prevent damage to the wall with me constantly banging my head against it, my systems does my head in[/ot]watch (just ignore the sound)
When I think of slipstreaming, I usually think of adding service packs rather then drivers! In fact I wasn't sure if you could slipstream drivers until Sniper pointed it out. I'll probably use a program like nLite to add the drivers to an installation disk. It's as easy as a few clicks of the mouse if I remember correctly.
yeah, me too, although, i think i only ever slipstreamed XP SP2 into an original XP CD :good: BTW: are we talking XP or Vista, if Vista, wouldn't vLite be a better choice ?
Windows XP. I used nLite to integrate the drivers into the installation CD and it worked flawlessly. Nlite is actually quite impressive as it's able to completely customise the installation and generate unattended installs. Much easier then using Microsoft's own unattended installation tools. I had already installed Ubuntu on my friend's laptop so it was a painful experience wiping it off in place of Windows! I never want to have to do that again
when i used XP, i was experimenting with that unattended installation thing (M$'s not nLite) dum dum di dum, dum di dum, dum dum dum (death march)
Oh, if the SATA controller is in IDE mode (or a non-RAID mode) you do not have to provide drivers for it to work.
