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

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon,

Can't you pinch a floppy drive from another machine just to do the
install ?

Cheers,

Tim H.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Griffiths
>
> If you are going to build PC's it is always worth having a
> spare Floppy Drive
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Simon Ryley
>
> 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