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Old 01-05-2006, 06:09 AM
Shenan Stanley
 
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Default Re: unable to install xp pro sata raid without obsolete hardware?

onnomv wrote:
> Is it really true that I need a diskette station to load the raid
> drivers during windows install? I tried several alternatives, but
> either the install program doesnīt recognize my hdds at all, or
> something else went wrong.
>
> These things donīt cost anything, but i think it is crazy there i
> have to buy one just to install some drivers. Is there a way to fool
> the installer and feed him with a USB stick? Is there another work
> around?
>
> Also using an old dikette thing is useless, for nobody I know has
> used these things during the last several years, so the heads have
> been oxidized and they canīt read or write anything anymore.
>
> Who knows the trick?


Shenan Stanley wrote:
> Integrate the RAID drivers needed into the Windows XP CD..


onnomv wrote:
> Thanks. sounds like this is simple and doable.
>
> I guess i only need the 24 kB sata.exe. Do you know where to put it?
> In the root of the i386? One of itīs sub-directories? I could put it
> in all of them. But should I add the name (and path) to some
> indexfile the installer reads? Top, bottem, does it matter?


Using Google...
http://www.google.com/
(How-to: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/basics.html )

One of the many pages that come up that I recognize is:
http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/READING/addraid.htm

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