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Unread 21 Mar 2005, 13:56   #1
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installing windows XP

i guess i need to reinstall my windows because ive been installing/uninstalling too much stuff. i have a sata-raid (or whatever it is called) which requires a driver disk when i install windows. now im wondering: is there any way to make the windows setup use an usb-stick / a cd-drive / some directory in the network or whatever instead of a floppy disk for looking for dirvers?
i have absolutly no use for that floppy dirve anymore except for that driver disk, so i thought it would be great if i could remove it (besides driver disk usually break sooner or later).
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Unread 21 Mar 2005, 14:31   #2
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I guess you could somehow include the drivers on your actual Windows XP (SP2?) disc.
Or copy the floppy to a CD, and as long as you have 2 CD ROM drives, that's ok, no?
XP booting from one drive, looking for the drivers on the other disk?

If that doesn't work, well, you could create a bootable DOS-CD and copy the RAID drivers on it. Then boot from that disk, create a RAM-drive, copy drivers there, insert XP-CD, run setup.exe, and use the RAM disk. Alright?

You could even automate that process with a batch file.


Oh, and just mentioning: If you include SP2 on your XP disc, you WON'T be able to change the product ID later on. So make sure you're using a valid one, or a "good faked", ie. not one starting with "FCKGW" (or similar)...


BTW, what RAID level are you using? I read about it yesterday and think RAID is nice...
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Re: installing windows XP

my xp-cd has no service packs or anything (im not even sure it's the final version, some parts of it are still in english) but i updated it with that windows-autoupdate-thing. the windows-setup seems to want to look for drivers on a:\ and nowhere else :/
im using a level-0-'suicide'-raid, but i have My Documents and everything else important to me on my linux-server, so i dont loose anything vital if one of the disk should crash
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Unread 21 Mar 2005, 15:07   #4
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RAID-0 is tempting because fast


Can't you create RAM-disk on A:, if no real floppy drive is present?
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Re: installing windows XP

i don't know. i always thought a: and b: are somehow protected for use only for floppy drives, but ill give that a try.
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Re: installing windows XP

www.bootdisk.com ?
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Re: installing windows XP

I've always found that a tedious feature of the windows install cd, seems no point limiting the search path to A: .

making a modified xp install disk with the drivers is the only way I've found around the issue
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Re: installing windows XP

thanks, i think ill try that. that way i can also add the service pack 2, so that i don't have to download it again. it doesn't even look very complicated: http://www.maximumpc.com/how_to/reprint_2005-01-05.html
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I guess you could somehow include the drivers on your actual Windows XP (SP2?) disc...
Defenitely best solution I'd say, if possible. There are LOTS OF LOTS of tools around for making bootable Windows XP CDs, even a sophisticated one from Microsoft themselves.

You can even create install-scripts and include Acrobat Reader and all other stuff, if you know how.
I've seen an XP CD before that actually generates / searches for your own unique XP product ID during install, all in a nice faked Original-Setup-Look (first Keygens took about 15minutes, newer only a second).


Again, if you create an SP2-XP-CD, make sure the cd key / product ID is "correct", because SP2 doesn't let you change it later on...
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Re: installing windows XP

You can get a variety of "shady apps" to change the product key.
And AFAIK you're limited to A. I'm not sure if A is limited to being a floppy disk though, the only way is to try and see.
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You can get a variety of "shady apps" to change the product key.
I know, I've used manual and automatic ways myself. But that was all on SP1, before installing SP2.
In a reliable German IT magazin's news ticker (www.heise.de), I read that in SP2 it wouldn't be that easy anymore (i.e. not possible at all) to change the product id. I haven't tried, but usually those professional-geek-people are right, and I trust their news...

On the other hand, it's been some time since then (> 6 months), maybe newer tools work again?
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Re: installing windows XP

once you have one that woks, why change it? i found some that seem to work on some website.

edit: ill give it a try now. if im not back in a few hours it didnt work
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