Re: Load hardware drivers during installation from floppy

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Richard,

I didn't ask to lecture me the history, I spent over 26 years with computers
to know them from scratch. MS also doesn't need to resend the CDs with the
corrected installer. We all know how to integrate the service pack into the
original CD and make a new CD with the latest SP built in. Why we wouldn't
do that?

Re the floppy drive - go to the nearest Fry's Electronics and buy this drive
for 5 USD...) I can see for 15-20 and higher, and just for what? To let me
install some stupid OS that can't be rightly installed without these drives?
I'm not using them anymore. My external hard drive reads/writes over 30
mbytes per second, that means that it reads 20 floppy drives in a second if
you can't count yourself. Floppy drive reads the disk usually in 1 (if it's
fast), but usually in 2 minutes.

You wanted a lecture? You got it. But this doesn't answer the original
question anyway regardless of your MVP.

Sorry.

Just D.


"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Just D." <no@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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All,

Maybe it's from FAQ, but nevertheless...

When we install Windows XP from scratch on some machine and the
installation requires some drivers to be installed using F6 the OS wants
me to insert the floppy disk with these drivers. But all current drivers
are with CD or micro CD disks and nobody supports any floppy disks
anymore. Even more, I have no any floppy drive on my machine. When
Windows
wants the floppy to be installed it has only 4 options - insert floppy,
Esc Ignore, F3 to get out of here forever. That's a dead loop. My machine
has CD/DVD drive installed on the main controller, two hard drives are
installed on the RAID controller and Windows wants the drivers to be read
from floppy. So to install Windows I have to disassemble machine,
reattach
hard drive to the primary controller, DVD to the secondary, then install
everything, attach RAID controller, install drivers when Windows is
already installed and loaded, finally shut down, reattach all hard drives
to the appropriate positions and reboot. Only in this case Windows is
able
to make me a gift booting up with these hard disks connected to the RAID
controller.

Is there any way to load these drivers from CD/DVD if I say open the CD
drive, take the Windows disk, insert CD with the drivers, click OK to let
Windows grab them, then reinsert the appropriate Windows CD to go ahead
with the installation?

That's so stupid, but I didn't find any official way to get the drivers
installed from CD during Windows installation from scratch! :(

Just D.





When the Windows XP installer was designed for Windows XP, floppy disks
were
very much in use. Every computer had them. Now the manufacturers are
trying
to lower the cost, in response to what? Why the consumers cry for lower
priced computers - of course. So they drop the floppy drive to save 5
bucks.
Personally I would never build a computer that didn't have a floppy drive
included, whether it was ever used, or not.

Microsoft is not going to redesign the Windows installer and send new CD's
to everyone just because they have no floppy drive.

Unfortunately, it leaves many between a rock and a hard place.

I suggest you purchase an external floppy drive to do what you have to do.
They do work well.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Using Windows Vista 5472
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



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