Windows 2003 sata driver no floppy

Get the latest "Intel Matrix Storage Manager", v. I am aware you cannot use both at the same time, the bios only lets you choose one setting at a time. I want RAID. Windows will not boot in RAID mode. I have already installed version 7. Then: I'd suggest a fresh install on a pair of newly-formatted drives, using the floppy F6 driver install method. For example: if you're trying to convert a single HD with an already installed copy of Windows Server to one half of a Raid 1 drive pair: I don't think that's very likely to succeed.

I see what you mean. My mistake. But I never said I was trying to boot both modes at once. I installed windows 2k3 over the previous install of 2k3. I wasn't trying to do anything exotic like converting a drive with data and OSses installed into a member of a raid array. I had four drives set asside for use with the onboard RAID controller, and simply wanted to be able to use them. Also I would have done the floppy F6 loading before, but I didn't have floppy drives or disks.

This is my first computer in about 6 years to have a floppy drive. I need to restore the vista boot menu now. That was my 4th OS re-install this week, and I'm not looking to do another one again until it's time to do 2k3 x Thanks for the help to everyone who posted. You must log in or register to reply here. Is Windows 10 "Reset this PC" ok? Similar threads Question Returning laptop.

Post thread. CPUs and Overclocking. Graphics Cards. AnandTech is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site. As you mention in the USB 3. A virtual machine with a physical USB drive piped through to it should be good enough for a quick test I guess.

Searching, I found a number of tricks to speed things up. Enter taskmgr, Processeses and right click setup. This cut down the time to approximately 25 minutes to get XP bit up and running.

EXE and setup XP bit to another partition. It did work but was problematic and I am still working on it. I am not too sure if it cut the time less than 25 minutes. I need to get away from floppy drives. This is not working, tried 2 different computers. It starts from pendrive, loads the f6-images, ask to boot from CD, yes, windows-setups starts, but ALWAYS when setup starts to load files after the F6-question both machines immediately restart!

I tried different usb-ports, pendrives, changed the optical drives, RAM, but it is always failing. I have Windows Pro on a thumb drive, how would I go about using a secondary thumb drive to boot up the necessary drivers to install Windows ?

So you might want to do that instead. If you still wish to insist on an F6 solution with two USB pen drives, please read on! One idea to solve this is to replace the BCDL boot loader with yet another syslinux one. That one would be booted by a corresponding boot track loading ldlinux. Unpack that. On Linux, check which device node the drive has e. The command shown above will allow you to identify your USB disk, but the disk id at the end is decimal, not hexadecimal. On top of that, it might be a negative number Windows wrongly interprets larger numbers as signed integers instead of unsigned ones.

On Windows, the same disk shows up with disk id To convert it to an unsigned decimal integer, calculate 2 32 - That results in Yay Windows quirks! Alright, back to the bfi.

Ok, before running the build process again, edit buildf6. Your primary stick will still emulate an F6 floppy drive like that, while Windows boots from the secondary USB pen drive. Please note that your Windows will have to have service pack 4 included for this to work on USB 2. I have tested this only briefly, but it seems to work! Would deserve another complete article instead of just a reply here I guess. Also please note that this solution will not work with optical drives attached to USB likely not the case here, just saying.

Hello I find this guide and it may be the solution for my old mb without an useful floppy and an yet xp modded iso, so I should do a great time needing work to begin from zero to insert a new textsetup. Thank you very much for the attention Best Regards. While I do not have a solution for you other than writing your own txtsetup. So you only need one of the two. When Windows is set up, you can install the other one normally.

However soon I will have time to format that SSHD and keep your usb method for one controller… or if I keep working another pendrive I may try for the second controller.. Hm, actually, installing a secondary controller via F6 or after Windows is set up should not make a difference at all. It may also make S. Please note that once both controllers are correctly set up and have been provided with drivers within a complete Windows installation, you can swap the boot drive between them without issues.

But, you know what? Small, slow USB pen drives are cheaper than a single lunch! So, just get a second one, and walk the easiest route out of that problem! I did not know that the included dell driver cd-rom has an extract function to create floppy disks. That helped. With this floppy disk it was possible to successfully install windows server on dimension Thanks for the update.

Before doing that I may just try the Windows Server to verify it works like you said. Some day I may put that on when I retire it as my everyday Workstation. Browse Community. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for.