SATA card floppy drivers by-pass?

It's time to format and reinstall Windows. I have a MAxtor Promise SATA
controller card and am using a SATA partition as my C drive. I don't have a
floppy anymore in the computer and am looking for a way to be able to install
the card again and continue to use that same C drive.

Can I slipstream the drivers like I did in XP SP2 on the cd? I'm not not new
to doing this kinda stuff but I've been out of the computer field for quite
some time and need some guidance.

Thanks,
Cezar

Cezar wrote:
> It's time to format and reinstall Windows. I have a MAxtor Promise
> SATA controller card and am using a SATA partition as my C drive. I
> don't have a floppy anymore in the computer and am looking for a
> way to be able to install the card again and continue to use that
> same C drive.
>
> Can I slipstream the drivers like I did in XP SP2 on the cd? I'm
> not not new to doing this kinda stuff but I've been out of the
> computer field for quite some time and need some guidance.

You can.
Using Google to search for it would likely come up with many ways to do
this - including answers given in these groups.

However - given you have asked - obviously your searches came up lacking the
answers you seeked - so here is probably the best place to look for such
answers:

http://unattended.msfn.org/

In particular, you are looking for instructions similar to:
http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/36/

As you can tell by looking around that site - you could make a CD (likely
DVD) that totally installs your system for you. You can integrate most of
the post-sp2 patches into the CD/DVD as well - making it a more complete
install with less to do afterwards. You can setup scripts to install other
applications in various means during/after the initial installation of
Windows XP.

Enjoy!

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Thank you so much!! I totally dislike having to use a floppy for obvious
reasons and wanted a consistant way to re-install everything. It sounds like
I'll be able to install all of the hardware drivers from the (likely) dvd
I'll be making.

Thanks again!

Cezar

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Cezar wrote:
> > It's time to format and reinstall Windows. I have a MAxtor Promise
> > SATA controller card and am using a SATA partition as my C drive. I
> > don't have a floppy anymore in the computer and am looking for a
> > way to be able to install the card again and continue to use that
> > same C drive.
> >
> > Can I slipstream the drivers like I did in XP SP2 on the cd? I'm
> > not not new to doing this kinda stuff but I've been out of the
> > computer field for quite some time and need some guidance.
>
> You can.
> Using Google to search for it would likely come up with many ways to do
> this - including answers given in these groups.
>
> However - given you have asked - obviously your searches came up lacking the
> answers you seeked - so here is probably the best place to look for such
> answers:
>
> http://unattended.msfn.org/
>
> In particular, you are looking for instructions similar to:
> http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/36/
>
> As you can tell by looking around that site - you could make a CD (likely
> DVD) that totally installs your system for you. You can integrate most of
> the post-sp2 patches into the CD/DVD as well - making it a more complete
> install with less to do afterwards. You can setup scripts to install other
> applications in various means during/after the initial installation of
> Windows XP.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>

Any descent pc shop have used floppy drives for about 5.00 if not less,new
go for about 15.00

"Cezar" wrote:

> It's time to format and reinstall Windows. I have a MAxtor Promise SATA
> controller card and am using a SATA partition as my C drive. I don't have a
> floppy anymore in the computer and am looking for a way to be able to install
> the card again and continue to use that same C drive.
>
> Can I slipstream the drivers like I did in XP SP2 on the cd? I'm not not new
> to doing this kinda stuff but I've been out of the computer field for quite
> some time and need some guidance.
>
> Thanks,
> Cezar