i need to install windows onto a SATA HDD without the f6 thing or a floppy drive, i read on some other forum that i could slipstream the drivers onto the cd and they would be read as i installed windows onto the hard drive (SATA) although the forum told me to slipstream the instructions were vague and i could not understand them, can anyone help me with slipstreaming the drivers onto the disk?

If you are building this computer and the motherboard has a floppy port I would spend the $6 or so dollars on a floppy drive.

Otherwise here is some reading for you:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...py&btnG=Search

It is doable at different levels of difficulty. None certainly as easy as inserting a floppy.

Originally Posted by pajelaandrew

i need to install windows onto a SATA HDD without the f6 thing or a floppy drive, i read on some other forum that i could slipstream the drivers onto the cd and they would be read as i installed windows onto the hard drive (SATA) although the forum told me to slipstream the instructions were vague and i could not understand them, can anyone help me with slipstreaming the drivers onto the disk?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...rivers&spell=1

which drivers would i need again?

Originally Posted by pajelaandrew

which drivers would i need again?

Should be labled SATA/RAID/SCSI or similar.

instead of a floppy could i use a flash drive?

I see it mentioned but not with success.

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...rs+flash+drive

If you do not want to get a floppy drive then slip streaming with nLite is the next easiest.

http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?act...showarticle=49

i have the drivers on the cd i got with the hard drive (maxblast 4 software), but i am on a laptop with no floppy drive, the floppy creator will not allow me to extract the files from the cd because i do not have a floppy disk. i opened the file but i do not know which files are the drivers. is there a way to extract them without having a floppy? i ahve a screenshot below

In general the drivers you need will be on the motherboard CD. Not Maxtor's.

When you have the motherboard drivers the idea is to slipstream them with your XP CD.

nLite is the tool for this process.

im looking at the drivers (dell.com) now but unsure if i should dL them, the drivers say they are nvidia mediashield, and i dont know if that is the one i need to download