Giving Up

[Scorpiоn]

As the title suggests, I'm giving up on cloning, and I'm just going to do a fresh install o' XP.  I disconnected my IDE and started installing XP on the SATA.  However, when XP finishes in it's two color stage, upon restart, BIOS reports the oh so loved error of "Error loading OS".  Is there something special to SATA drives?  'Tis getting on my nerves.

And to think I told my customer I'd have his drive in about a week!  ::) Goin' on about a month now.

[Weather_Man]

Did you install the SATA/RAID drivers during the beginning of the XP setup -- when it prompts to hit F6?

[Scorpiоn]

Aha!  Stupid I tell you, I'm just plain stupid!

Back to the beginning.

[Scorpiоn]

I did the F6 route, however it appears you need a floppy.  I resent floppies for all they're worth and didn't install a floppy drive in my computer, is there yet hope for me?

[Skligmund]

Nope, no hope.  "P

You need the floppy, that is all that can do it.

[Scorpiоn]

I did a bit of Googling...

Would it be possible to "slipstream" the driver to the XP disc?

[the_autopilot]

there is a way to emulate a floppy via a USB stick.

Its how I flash my BIOS'es and use boot 'disks' and not have floppy in my computer.

Search the internet for emulating floppy drives and you'll find it.

[Weather_Man]

A $10 floppy drive would be a bit cheaper than a USB stick, if you had to buy something.

[the_autopilot]

A $10 floppy drive would be a bit cheaper than a USB stick, if you had to buy something.

Yes, but he would only use the floppy once. A USB stick has many more uses.

[GunnerMan]

USB stick can also hold crazy storage, our IT Dir has 4 gig stick, floppy has 1.44 Megs...

[Jared]

Yep, but those of us who still have a floppy drive installed we sit back and smile each time it asks us for a floppy, knowing that the drive is there, and always will be..


Why the floppy drive I have in my system is the same one I used when I built the old 486 system many years ago..

[Skligmund]

Mine is out of my Dad's old 286....... Oofda!