SATA but no floppy.

If you actually need them (sometimes you don't) then you NEED a floppy drive, maybe not permantently, but you do need one for the installation period. If you dont have one, borrow one from a friend or steal it from your dad's PC, lol...

Or buy one of course, they are only like £5

dragon
 
Thanks for answer Dragon.
I forgot to mention that this is notebook...
I found something like that: "You could use nLite to add the appropriate driver to a copy of your install CD, then boot and let Windows find the driver by itself."

There is a few more options with usb floppy "BUT only certain models" (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916196/en-us).

I think the nLite options it's quite good.
 
get a flash drive (memory sick) and put the floppy in someone elses computer. work or school. Copy it over to the flash drive or burn it to a cd or make an account on box.net and upload it to there from another computer. download the files on the computer you wan't to install SATA drive on
 
henryjsaunders said:
get a flash drive (memory sick) and put the floppy in someone elses computer. work or school. Copy it over to the flash drive or burn it to a cd or make an account on box.net and upload it to there from another computer. download the files on the computer you wan't to install SATA drive on
Click to expand...

How can I download the files with no OS?
And what can I do with drivers on flash drive or cd?
 
I try the nLite option first.
If that won't work there is no other choice then usb floppy i guess...
I think you can also play with drive letters and change to A: somehow... but to much hussle...

Thanks all for suggestions!!
:)
 
You can only install SATA drivers from either a floppy drive or have a slipstreamed install cd with the drivers included. XP only allows installation from a floppy drive, not sure about Vista.
 
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