Re: Reinstalling Windows
- From: BillW50 <BillW50@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:45:56 -0600
On 12/12/2009 8:36 PM, Mike S. wrote:
In article<hg0q9b$605$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Barry Watzman<WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Re: "Some manufacture's Windows XP disc contains the SATA driver"
I have never yet seen that, although the 2nd part of that paragraph is
"sort of" true ("the BIOS has the SATA drive(s) set for legacy (ATA)
mode. Which doesn't require the driver"). I don't like the terminology
you use, which I think is technically wrong, but yes, many BIOS have
built-in SATA to IDE emulation.
Re: "And yes, USB floppy drives works fine for F6 drivers"
That is absolutely not universally true; it depends on the BIOS.
GENERALLY, if the machine can boot from a floppy drive (or, for that
matter, from any USB device) you can use it for an F6 driver. However
lots of older machines (more than about 4-5 years old) don't have that
capability.
Actually the ability (or not) to use a particular USB floppy drive to add
drivers via F6 depends not upon the BIOS but upon the XP installer's
ability to recognize it as a USB floppy drive. THAT depends on whether
it's PnP ID string is contained in the textsetup.oem file on the XP
install disk.
See http://www.msfn.org/board/using-f6-driver-usb-floppy-t82711.html
for a definitive discussion of this issue.
Very interesting Mike. Thanks very much!
--
Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) - Windows XP SP2
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