WinXP install on RAID array w/o Floppy drive

[SafirXP]

Don't have a floppy drive & is there any other way of installing the RAID drivers during WinXP's installation???

oh... OC Forum gurus... find me a solution... ;)

[shortyes]

Search the forums, there is a way but you have to create a backup WindowsXP disk and add the newer drivers onto the backup disk

Only way I know without having a floppy

[jlin453]

Floppy drives are about $10 :). They're nice to have in instances like this :p

[repo man11]

It seems there is a way, but it is far more trouble than it is worth to me. Take a look at this thread, http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=251879&highlight=slipstream .
Situations like these prove to me that floppy drives aren't yet useless. And a willingness to spend hours on a workaround speaks of an irrational dislike of floppy drives.

[Albuquerque]

I've done this a few times...

Install your OS to a temporary POS drive; I use an old 8gb Western Digital ATA/33 junker. Live through the painful slowness, get XP just basically loaded, and then install the RAID driver. Reboot, make sure XP detects the RAID chip. If it does, you're set.

Shut the machine down, use Ghost (or something similar) to clone that 8gb disk to your new RAID array, then rip out the 8GB disk and reboot. Now you're on your nice RAID, go ahead and load up the rest of your needed drivers.

I've used this on my current Promise 20276 RAID and my previous 20376 RAID.

[wquiles]

That is how I feel - having a floppy is still so darn usefull, even if not often that I need one. I plan to having a single floppy on my PC's for years to come :)