Yesterday I decided to format my computer, I needed to transfer the RAID drivers to a floppy disk so I could use them in the Windows XP setup, but every floppy I used I always got the "No disk in Drive, please insert a disk in drive A:". I looked in the BIOS and everything seemed fine, If I had a disk in the drive Windows wouldn't boot cause I would get the "Invalid disk in drive" msg, so that meant the drive was working. I spent like 2 hours getting making a bootable USB drive with both DOS and the RAID drivers in them, once I booted DOS I was able to access the Floppy drive with no problems at all, I formatted 1 Floppy disk, copied the RAID drivers there (without xcopy it was a pain ) then I started Windows XP setup, it recognized the disk as well as the drivers, but then, after it formatted the HDD and before copying windows files it asked for the Floppy with the RAID drivers again, and this time it didn't recognize the Floppy any more :/ Any idea what could be wrong?
I think i know what your problem is... The windows installer that runs from the CD needs a different driver file from the installer that runs off the Hard Drive after you have restarted. Unfortunately i cant remember what files you need, but i don't think you have copied all of them!
i would guess it's probably the floppy drive, maybe it needs cleaning BTW: thats a lot of messing about, why don't you just slipstream your RAID drivers into your XP CD, then, whenever you install XP it will just work by booting the XP CD there is a slipstreaming "how to" here
Hum, now that you mention it, there was 2 0byte files that the DOS copy command wouldn't copy, since they were 0byte files I thought it would matter. I just finished installing Vista on it, temporarily, and I just noticed the RAID drivers packadge on the Motherboards website changed, so now that Vista has access to the floppy drive (Since it worked in DOS and in Vista I'm guessing that my XP got somehow messed up), I'll now copy the new drivers to the floppy and see if it works. Yes, I was reading about that a while ago, the thing is, the SATA drivers for floppy disk that I was using worked several times before, I just found it odd that they weren't working now and that the floppy drive just stopped working on XP all of the sudden.
