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

["Davey" <DB1001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If Simon wants to contact me offlist and is willing to pay postage I'll
stick a drive in the post to him as I've a couple kicking around.

Davey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Griffiths" <mike@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:58 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Very OT: Install windows 2k onto a SATA drive


>
> 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
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>
>
> 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
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