I've heard of people doing this with a Slip Streamed XP install CD that
contains the drivers.
There's s guide here:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Install-Windows-XP-On-SATA-Without-a-Floppy-F6-47807.shtml
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] New HDD is not recognized in laptop HP dv6102od
From: Don Penlington <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, September 29, 2009 8:24 pm
To: [log in to unmask]
At 08:26 AM 9/29/2009 -0700, you wrote:
>You must Press F6 when installing XP to load the driver from a floppy,
>which opens another can of worms if you don't have a floppy.>>
That's precisely the problem I had recently, which I never resolved.
So how do you get around that particular can of worms where there is no
floppy? I tried to force the bios to load sata drivers from a CD which I
inserted during the XP installation process instead of the non-existent
floppy, but that wouldn't work.
I tried hooking up a temporary floppy, but the computer didn't want to
recognise it.
I gave up in the end, as I had a sneaking suspicion that the mobo was
faulty anyway.
Don Penlington
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