RE: Very OT: Install windows 2k onto a SATA drive

["Mike Griffiths" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are going to build PC's it is always worth having a spare Floppy
Drive

It is the simplest solution honestly.

Mike



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From: Simon Ryley [mailto:simon.ryley@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 March 2005 12:48
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Very OT: Install windows 2k onto a SATA drive



I have a nice pile of shiny new bits which I have made into the new
media PC / PVR for the lounge.

The problem I have is that I can't install windows 2k onto it.

The machine has a SATA hard drive installed, no floppy drive and no cd.

(DVD RW drive may come later)

The plan was to boot the machine using a USB stick, then install windows

2k from a network share.  (This bit all works)

The problem is that the windows setup program doesn't see the SATA
drive, and so asks for a driver.  I have the driver, but the only place
the program will look is the a: drive, which doesn't exist on my
machine.  I can't work out a way to tell the setup program to look
elsewhere.

Anyone have any suggestions for how to get around this one?  I don't
have a floppy drive lying around to use, and I can't see the point in
buying one to use for 5 minutes.

Googling suggests slipstreaming the driver files into the win2k install,

but I was wondering if there was a simpler way?

The usb drive is always recognized as c: Is there any way of making the
machine see this as an a: drive instead?  If so, then I can put the SATA

drivers on there.

Thanks for any suggestions, this is driving me crazy...

Simon