Installing xp without floppy drive
kakashi1982
I have built a computer but my mobo does not support fpdd and I want to
use windows xp with raid 0 config. I have tried to install it with
modified xp made by nlite. it kept giving me a fatal error from asms
file.
I dl nlite installed.
copied windows xp files to hd
run program nlite
put raid and sata driver into the file using the program
made image and burn cd
tried to install xp
it failed giving me the error message saying E:\ I386\asms blah blah
blah
can anyone help me with this ? thank you
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<kakashi19...@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:
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> I have built a computer but my mobo does not support fpdd and I want to
> use windows xp with raid 0 config. I have tried to install it with
> modified xp made by nlite. it kept giving me a fatal error from asms
> file.
I can't help with your error, but let me comment that I think RAID 0
is almost always a poor idea. Although it sound like it should improve
performance, it normally doesn't help at all. Read here: "Why RAID is
(usually) a Terrible Idea" at
http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles?&id=29
> I dl nlite installed.
> copied windows xp files to hd
> run program nlite
> put raid and sata driver into the file using the program
> made image and burn cd
> tried to install xp
> it failed giving me the error message saying E:\ I386\asms blah blah
> blah
> can anyone help me with this ? thank you
>
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Shenan Stanley
> I have built a computer but my mobo does not support fpdd and I
> want to use windows xp with raid 0 config. I have tried to install
> it with modified xp made by nlite. it kept giving me a fatal error
> from asms file.
>
> I dl nlite installed.
> copied windows xp files to hd
> run program nlite
> put raid and sata driver into the file using the program
> made image and burn cd
> tried to install xp
> it failed giving me the error message saying E:\ I386\asms blah blah
> blah
> can anyone help me with this ? thank you
I bet your system would support a USB Floppy Diskette.
$20-$40 $ US and you're done and you have something lying around for those
strange moments. ;-)
Or you could get an OS that is not 8-9 years old with two successors
already. *eg*
Read up here:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment/browse_frm/thread/962ccfa79181343e/
Should give you virtually every way to integrate those drivers in one way or
another.
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Anteaus
Excellent article, and something I've been trying to convince people of for
years, ever since we had a single disk failure in a SCSI RAID1 Netware server
trash the data on the PAIR. This was with a quality disk controller too, not
a junk one.
Unfortunately the 'name dropping' problem dictates that uninformed people
assume RAID must be good.
Apart from the problem of cheap, poor-quality controllers, you have the
issue of disaster-recovery. Assuming you have a full backup of course- can
the backup or disk-imaging software restore the data to an exotic RAID array?
All too often the answer is NO, but -because you have only one RAID array and
therefore cannot do restoration tests- the only time you get to discover this
is when the whole office is twiddling its collective thumbs, and the boss is
breathing heavily down your neck in the comms room.
kakashi1982
I have built a computer but my mobo does not support fpdd and I want to
use windows xp with raid 0 config. I have tried to install it with
modified xp made by nlite. it kept giving me a fatal error from asms
file.
I dl nlite installed.
copied windows xp files to hd
run program nlite
put raid and sata driver into the file using the program
made image and burn cd
tried to install xp
it failed giving me the error message saying E:\ I386\asms blah blah
blah
can anyone help me with this ? thank you
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kakashi1982
oops made this one by accident
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perhaps, you might try to
install windows
on an ide first.
then move the drive to a
sata plug and set your
bios to boot from it.
then if you might have to do a
repair install on that drive in
order to resyncronize the o.s.
to its new location - maybe.
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incidentally forget about raids.
with today terabyte disk drives
becoming a standard,
raids are passee.
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Shenan Stanley
kakashi1982 wrote:
> I have built a computer but my mobo does not support fpdd and I
> want to use windows xp with raid 0 config. I have tried to install
> it with modified xp made by nlite. it kept giving me a fatal error
> from asms file.
>
> I dl nlite installed.
> copied windows xp files to hd
> run program nlite
> put raid and sata driver into the file using the program
> made image and burn cd
> tried to install xp
> it failed giving me the error message saying E:\ I386\asms blah blah
> blah
> can anyone help me with this ? thank you
Repeating it will be unlikely to change the answer you get... ;-)
<entire conversation>
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support/browse_frm/thread/355cbec321d77d95/
</entire conversation>
Jose
wrote:
So is your issue that you tried to integrate your drivers into your XP
installation package and it doesn't seem to be working or is the
advice on methods to add an external floppy drive sufficient?
I think I would rather rather have an installation CD that I knew
worked and was 100% reliable for installations.
If that is your objective, tell us about the hardware configuration
you want to use and what blah blah blah means. We can offer ideas or
help find documentation.
Have you checked the unspecified hardware manufacturers WWW site for
ideas? The concept of integrating their drivers into an installation
CD (or even an unattended installation CD) without a floppy drive
cannot be new to them. I
have made plenty of unattended XP installation CDs for all kinds of
hardware platforms with RAID configurations - boot on the CD, come
back later.
You may have to burn a few CDs in the process, but when you get done
you will know what you have.
kakashi1982
i found my problem.... my xp disk was faulty and it was brand new....
never thought brand new xp could be faulty. and all i was trying to do
was integrate raid driver into xp so that i dont have to use floppy
drive. now that i have found out that this xp cd is faulty i can use
other disk to make a new one. thanks for your help
Patrick Keenan
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> kakashi1982 wrote:
>> I have built a computer but my mobo does not support fpdd and I
>> want to use windows xp with raid 0 config. I have tried to install
>> it with modified xp made by nlite. it kept giving me a fatal error
>> from asms file.
>>
>> I dl nlite installed.
>> copied windows xp files to hd
>> run program nlite
>> put raid and sata driver into the file using the program
>> made image and burn cd
>> tried to install xp
>> it failed giving me the error message saying E:\ I386\asms blah blah
>> blah
>> can anyone help me with this ? thank you
>
> I bet your system would support a USB Floppy Diskette.
>
> $20-$40 $ US and you're done and you have something lying around for those
> strange moments. ;-)
I recently had to use my USB floppy drive to rebuild a pretty new TOshiba
laptop. The XP install found the floppy drive and picked up the SATA
drivers, and allowed me to format the disk. Worked great - until it
started copying files. *Then*, it wanted to see the floppy to re-copy the
drivers and couldn't find the drive. I had to use nLite and rebuild the
install CD to get past this.
John John - MVP
This is because the Windows Setup program only supports a handful of USB
drives for F6 driver installation method, that is explained here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916196/
Adding the standard Microsoft USB storage drivers to the txtsetup.oem
file on the floppy diskette usually resolves this problem, see here:
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/CS-026606.htm
Adding the USB floppy's vendor ID should also fix the problem, see here
for an example:
http://blog.mreza.info/archive/2007/09/19/windows-f6-driver-and-usb-floppy.aspx
John