Sata floppy from Hell

[WhiteX]

Here´s the deal, i got no floppy here to spare, my client haven´t bought one and the damn sata hdd needs it to be installed under XP, do you guys know another way around?
Can a CD swap be done?

 

[TerraPhantm]

It's possible to integrate the driver into the CD itself.

Here is a pretty good guide, although this one was designed for a specific SATA controller, the procedure is basically the same as that link outlines.

 

[_Chrono_]

i dont have any SATA drives but my uncle told me that he tried to install windows on his SATA drive and it wasnt recognized. But at the beginning of the installation of windows, it asks to press F8 (i think...) to isntall SCSI drivers or something like that. He told me he did that and his Sata drive was recognize. Give it a try

wish i could of verified this before posting it. but it should take you about 5 mins to test

 

[TerraPhantm]

When you press F6, it prompts you to insert a floppy with the SATA drivers, since WhiteX doesn't have a floppy, this isn't an option. The method I linked to would be the only way to do it.

 

[_Chrono_]

ahh my bad.

wish i could of checked first

 

[WhiteX]

OK, i did the windows integration thingie, thanks TerraPhantm, however the second part of the installation does not start, the little blue thing goes on forever, so i tried the floppy thing and the result is the same...Is there some tool to check the Sata Hdd integrity?

 

[xneoangel]

You can try using this program its pretty good.
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

 

[Flash]

If your client don't have a floppy then remove it from your PC (don't forget cable) , connect to that machine and install drivers, then disconnect and put it back to your PC.
Or just say "buy floppy and floppy cable and i will install windoze"

Both are fastest and easiest solutions

 

[WhiteX]

i have no floppy and this part is over because i bought a floppy drive to work, now the windows not boot after the first part of installation, i got seatools and wiil burn it on a cd tomorrow for i have cds to spare now.

 

[Doomulation]

A question that has been echoing within my mind: why are floppy disks still used? They are horribly outdated, slow, tend to break very easily and low capacity. Why not use CDs instead? Heck, a floppy is INCREDIBLY expensive compared to a CD (and a cd very expensive compared to a dvd).

Myself I have never been able to install windows on a SATA drive, but so, I have an IDE drive too, which was apparently the reason as to why, because windows just wanted to install on the IDE drive.

 

[WhiteX]

did you got problems like mine?

 

[Doomulation]

Windows wouldn't install on the SATA drive, but the IDE drive, so all I needed was install SATA drivers and everything was okay.
EDIT: But I used automatic installation... I don't know if you could force windows to install on the SATA using a normal install.

 

[TerraPhantm]

It needs the SATA drivers so it could see your harddrive, you can not simply force Windows to see it. The only methods I know of are integrating the drivers into the CD (to which there are instructions in an earlier post of mine), or using a floppy disk to load the drivers.

 

[WhiteX]

yes, i did the cd and acquired a floppy unit later, now windows just don´t pass the first installation reboot.

 

[WhiteX]

OK, just for the sake of explanation and gravedigging, well the Sata drive only worked on win 2K, do not ask me why but that´s what happened, now for the weird part, i got myself a Sata hdd as well, on the same guy and it worked alright, with no hassle at all on the installation, very weird.