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Convincing Setup to look at a CD or Hdd folder for SATA drivers
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 8:07 am
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Posted by Kiwi (2211 messages posted)


Is there some simple way to force Windows2000's setup to use something other than a floppy for this purpose? I have not been using floppies in new systems for several years, but as these SATA drives become more and more common, the annoyance of having to find a floppy drive and attach it long enough to load the drivers is aggravating.

Surely there's an entry in an INF file that can be altered?

What do the administrators of businesses with hundreds or thousands of PCs being upgraded from IDE to SATA do about this problem? Surely they also have been skipping floppy drives! (While the subject is open, does W2K's younger brother, XP, have a similar, or a less-difficult way to handle the same thing?)

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Kiwi

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Responses to this message:
*re: Convincing Setup to look at a CD or Hdd folder for SATA drivers (Jacob6601: Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 9:58 am)
*re: Convincing Setup to look at a CD or Hdd folder for SATA drivers (DEX: Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 12:13 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Convincing Setup to look at a CD or Hdd folder for SATA drivers (Kiwi: Wed, Mar 4, 2009, 8:07 am)
*re: Convincing Setup to look at a CD or Hdd folder for SATA drivers (Jacob6601: Wed, Mar 4, 2009, 9:58 am)
*re: Convincing Setup to look at a CD or Hdd folder for SATA drivers (DEX: Thu, Mar 5, 2009, 12:13 pm)
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