SATA drivers for the XPS410/Dimension 9200 -- no floppy.

I don't have a floppy in this machine and can't find my USB floppy drive
(it's in a box. Somewhere).

I need drivers to install Windows Home Server.

Is there a simple way to make it pull the drivers from a USB key? I
don't recall.

Thanks,

Tom

Tom,
I doubt there is, i was never able to get that to work.
may be easy to just install a floppy drive for the time being, pulled
from another computer, etc. or order from mwave.com for $6.
Jay

Tom Scales wrote:
> I don't have a floppy in this machine and can't find my USB floppy drive
> (it's in a box. Somewhere).
>
> I need drivers to install Windows Home Server.
>
> Is there a simple way to make it pull the drivers from a USB key? I
> don't recall.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>

On Jan 12, 5:53*pm, "Tom Scales" <tjsca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't have a floppy in this machine and can't find my USB floppy drive
> (it's in a box. *Somewhere).
>
> I need drivers to install Windows Home Server.
>
> Is there a simple way to make it pull the drivers from a USB key? *I
> don't recall.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom

Even if your USB floppy wasn't buried in the loft under those carrier
bags full of unused sweaters, would Windows recognise it as drive a: ?

yes, on modern computers it does
(any dell in the last 2 years at least)

Juan Kerr wrote:
> On Jan 12, 5:53 pm, "Tom Scales" <tjsca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't have a floppy in this machine and can't find my USB floppy drive
>> (it's in a box. Somewhere).
>>
>> I need drivers to install Windows Home Server.
>>
>> Is there a simple way to make it pull the drivers from a USB key? I
>> don't recall.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tom
>
> Even if your USB floppy wasn't buried in the loft under those carrier
> bags full of unused sweaters, would Windows recognise it as drive a: ?

Or switch from RAID mode to ATA mode. Forgot I could just do that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay B [mailto:jayB@audiman.net]
> Posted At: Saturday, January 12, 2008 1:18 PM
> Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
> Conversation: SATA drivers for the XPS410/Dimension 9200 -- no floppy.
> Subject: Re: SATA drivers for the XPS410/Dimension 9200 -- no floppy.
>
> Tom,
> I doubt there is, i was never able to get that to work.
> may be easy to just install a floppy drive for the time being, pulled
> from another computer, etc. or order from mwave.com for $6.
> Jay
>
> Tom Scales wrote:
> > I don't have a floppy in this machine and can't find my USB floppy
> drive
> > (it's in a box. Somewhere).
> >
> > I need drivers to install Windows Home Server.
> >
> > Is there a simple way to make it pull the drivers from a USB key? I
> > don't recall.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tom
> >

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:53:08 GMT, "Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com>
wrote:

>I don't have a floppy in this machine and can't find my USB floppy drive
>(it's in a box. Somewhere).
>
>I need drivers to install Windows Home Server.
>
>Is there a simple way to make it pull the drivers from a USB key? I
>don't recall.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tom

By the time you see this you are probably already there but as
Vista will pull the drivers off a usb stick I would guess WHS would
be able to.
Give us a rundown after you have used WHS for a few weeks and
let us know how it goes.

Art

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Star@*.* [mailto:Star@*.*]
> Posted At: Sunday, January 13, 2008 2:18 AM
> Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
> Conversation: SATA drivers for the XPS410/Dimension 9200 -- no floppy.
> Subject: Re: SATA drivers for the XPS410/Dimension 9200 -- no floppy.
>
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:53:08 GMT, "Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I don't have a floppy in this machine and can't find my USB floppy
> drive
> >(it's in a box. Somewhere).
> >
> >I need drivers to install Windows Home Server.
> >
> >Is there a simple way to make it pull the drivers from a USB key? I
> >don't recall.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Tom
>
> By the time you see this you are probably already there but as
> Vista will pull the drivers off a usb stick I would guess WHS would
> be able to.
> Give us a rundown after you have used WHS for a few weeks and
> let us know how it goes.
>
> Art

When I do things, I do it in a big way. I've been moving data over to
it all night. First I have to copy over the network and empty a drive,
then physically move the drive to the WHS machine and add it to the
pool. Once I'm done (probably today), the WHS machine will have:

2x 1TB
6x 750GB

So 6.5TB, mostly full. Then I have to install the connector on the
various machines to automate backups. Lastly, I have a couple 750GB IDE
drives that will get USB cases and become drives in the backup pool
(still have to figure out how to designate drives for a particular
pool).

Since it is an OEM product, it comes with basically NO doc. Lots to
research online.

Appears pretty cool. Basically Server 2003 with the Server 2008
console, from what I understand.

In article <47891a8a$0$13814$607ed4bc@cv.net>, Jay B <jayB@audiman.net> wrote:
>
>Juan Kerr wrote:
>> On Jan 12, 5:53 pm, "Tom Scales" <tjsca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I don't have a floppy in this machine and can't find my USB floppy drive
>>> (it's in a box. Somewhere).
>>>
>>> I need drivers to install Windows Home Server.
>>>
>>> Is there a simple way to make it pull the drivers from a USB key? I
>>> don't recall.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Tom
>>
>> Even if your USB floppy wasn't buried in the loft under those carrier
>> bags full of unused sweaters, would Windows recognise it as drive a: ?

>yes, on modern computers it does
>(any dell in the last 2 years at least)

Only if it's on the "short list" of drives recognized by the XP installer.
If, for instance, you have a Sony, Samsung, or noname drive; you're as
good as having none.

i've never tried a usb floppy other than the one i got from dell.

but i've never seen a floppy need a driver before.

the catch is to make sure the usb floppy drive is plugged in before the
machine is turned on. and also you need to enable it in the bios as well.

Mike S. wrote:

>> yes, on modern computers it does
>> (any dell in the last 2 years at least)
>
> Only if it's on the "short list" of drives recognized by the XP installer.
> If, for instance, you have a Sony, Samsung, or noname drive; you're as
> good as having none.
>
>

"Jay B" <jayB@audiman.net> wrote in message
news:478c898b$0$9118$607ed4bc@cv.net...
> i've never tried a usb floppy other than the one i got from dell.
>
> but i've never seen a floppy need a driver before.
>
> the catch is to make sure the usb floppy drive is plugged in before the
> machine is turned on. and also you need to enable it in the bios as well.
>


I need to try this myself and confirm. I've always wondered how difficult
integrating a USB floppy into the install mix would go for SATA/RAID
drivers.

I suppose it's impossible to use a (bootable) USB key so that it would be
accessible using the F6 option. ?


Stew