Demi-god

A million thanks. zen69x! I made my own XP SP1 cd that recognised my s-ata hdd in the text setup phase without having to rely on a floppy disk. I wonder why this information wasn't available anywhere else. Maybe everyone else loves floppy disk drives?

Quote: If you follow the unattended installation instructions, that should allow you to add a mass-storage controller driver, however, you will need to copy at least the i386 folder to your hard drive, and make a custom CD. The M$ guide says it's impossible to specify additional drivers during unattended setup. Besides, I do NOT want to do an unattended setup! Quote: More information on that can be found in DosFreak's Ultimate Slipstream Guide here in the forums. DosFreak's slipstream guide contains no information regarding adding new drivers to text setup phase. Quote: You can do this. I will see if I can post some better information later. I integrated some OEM SCSI drivers onto a CD and now it recognizes the controller during install. No floppy needed. I'd be grateful if you could tell me how you accomplished this.

Thanks! This was just what I needed. EDIT: Seems like this was useless information after all The latter link points to a document which describes how to add OEM drivers in the GUI phase, but I need to add them in the text setup phase! The former link says I need to download the boot disks(floppy disks as they are, this would not help at all).

Is there any way to add drivers to the XP installation so I could finally get rid of the goddamn legacy 3.5" floppy drive? I'm trying to install XP on a serial ata hdd but it won't be recognised unless I give the drivers on a floppy disk(not even a USB floppy will do). I want to get rid of the floppy disk for good but Microsoft still seems to actively support it since drivers can't be input any other way!