No floppy drive on that machine- can I use an SD card, or burn a CD?Def
I'll throw it off a bridge. I hate canned machines.Def
Can I recommend that you set fire to the thing or jump up and down on it (once took revenge on an awkward barbeque in that manner)instead of throwing off the bridge it's far more satisfying to watch the blasted burn /disintegrate before your eyes and you don't get fined for littering if the :police:see you
then XP might ask what drivers off the floppy to load. Pick the drivers for whatever RAID chipset you have. XP should load the drivers then proceed with the installation. Splat
No floppy drive on that machine- can I use an SD card, or burn a CD?
I don't think he has a floppy. My support guy answered. The generic answer was check your cables, upgrade and set BIOS to default, use XP Pro SP2 (for driver support) if available, and check your install media. Also if you have the original recovery CD's use them they do have OEM drivers not included in a generic XP install. Sorry that's the best I could get from him given I did not have the machine in front of me.If for some reason you HD does require a different driver then you can use a USB floppy or prepare your own install image. see http://www.maximumpc.com/article/How-To--Slipstream-your-XP-installation and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314479/
I have two external drives- a 250gig and a 160gig. I don't need no steenkin' partitions.
I agree that the drive theory sounds dumb as a bag of rocks, but I could use a new drive anyway, and the bottom line is my drives wouldn't install it, and his would. Unless of course he was feeding me a line about the whole thing, but I don't think he's quite that intelligent.