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How Do I select another location other than "A" Drive

Asked by: cjoego

I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 and would like to rip out Vista and Install XP.

During the Install I hit the F6 for other drivers, But I do not have an "A" Drive.  I have the Floppy disabled in the Bios
and no matter how Hard I try i cannot have the install read the Cd-rom or USB drive to pull the drivers

How can I tell the install to search in another place.

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2008-09-22 at 20:57:32ID23753811
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Installations of SATA Drivers

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Answers

 

by: zgiuffriaPosted on 2008-09-22 at 21:11:05ID: 22546363

Does it say F6 for raid drivers?

 

by: jamietonerPosted on 2008-09-22 at 21:22:24ID: 22546406

"How can I tell the install to search in another place."You can't, this is a limitation of XP. To get around this what I do is slipstream the Sata driver onto an XP cd using nlite(www.nliteos.com).

 

by: DextertronicPosted on 2008-09-22 at 21:34:58ID: 22546445

 

by: leewPosted on 2008-09-22 at 23:59:53ID: 22546959

You may not have to do any of that.  BIOS on most new laptops has an option for a "legacy" or "compatibility" mode for the hard drives.  Look over your BIOS for something like it and enable it.  

 

by: aavictorPosted on 2008-09-23 at 00:40:29ID: 22547102

First of all, please ensure that your BIOS find your HDD and CD-ROW/Writer driver. Of course,
enable your USB.  If It is disable, enable this device.  If The device is not detected but physically
existed and connected with power,  use another device to test ; or  send this machine to your
vendor for repairment.

 

 

by: zgiuffriaPosted on 2008-09-23 at 08:32:14ID: 22550501

Wait it sounds like your at the blue screen where you set up your partitions.  Don't press F6 for drivers.  Just let it go.  You do not need to install raid drivers.

 

by: DextertronicPosted on 2008-09-23 at 16:14:37ID: 22555061

Good point.

 The only time you need to supply drivers at this point ( Press F6 for drivers) is for hard disk controllers that don't have their drivers included in your installation media (in your case your installation media would be your windows xp or vista cd)

Only once have i ever used it for anything other than a server using a RAID controller.

I would be surprised if you had to supply drivers for a windows xp install on a 1525.

If the installation process comes up with a message along the lines of "can't find hard dirve" or something like that, the next step would be to provide the missing hard disk controller drivers.

Otherwise just let it install.

 

by: cjoegoPosted on 2008-09-23 at 20:55:34ID: 22556600

I used the USB Key Solution and it worked great!!!

My Laptop now runs XP and all of my client's legacy equipment works.

Thank you all for your great advice.

 

by: cjoegoPosted on 2008-09-23 at 20:56:12ID: 31499134

Works Great !!!!

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