Vista setup and SATA

I'm getting ready to install Vista Ultimate on a computer that has no floppy
drive (A). Does the Vista DVD have the appropriate drivers on the disk or do
I have to figure out a way to install the drivers using F6....

Enter your system's BIOS and make certain that the DVD/CD transport is the
first boot device. Then when you system boots it will go the DVD rather than
the hard drive to run the Operating System.

The DVD is made to boot your computer and install the software.


"jimrx4" wrote:

> I'm getting ready to install Vista Ultimate on a computer that has no floppy
> drive (A). Does the Vista DVD have the appropriate drivers on the disk or do
> I have to figure out a way to install the drivers using F6....
>
>

"RickyF" <RickyF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Enter your system's BIOS and make certain that the DVD/CD transport is the
> first boot device. Then when you system boots it will go the DVD rather
> than
> the hard drive to run the Operating System.
>
> The DVD is made to boot your computer and install the software.
>

Erm, that doesn't really answer his question.

ss.

"jimrx4" <jimrx4@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I'm getting ready to install Vista Ultimate on a computer that has no
> floppy drive (A). Does the Vista DVD have the appropriate drivers on the
> disk or do I have to figure out a way to install the drivers using F6....


You do not need a floppy drive for SATA drivers anymore. You get an option
to add them from floppy, USB flashdrive or CD/DVD during the install
process. Also, the Vista DVD included most drivers for popular controllers.

ss.

is there a (os) on your computer now? if so go online and download the
drivers for your (sata) when done if you have more then one harddrive
put it on drive 2 if not just remember where it's at on your drive and
bootup with your ( cd ) when it comes to the part where you see your
drives to install (os) to you will see somthing on the lefthand bottom
of the screen to load your (sata). hope this helped you
scrooge


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scrooge