WinXp installation and LS120 drives

[D-money 0]

Has anyone here successfully installed windowsXP using the LS120 as their A drive? I know the drive works fine, since i am currently using it in Win2000, but when I tried to install WinXP it told me that it didn't detect a floppy drive.

 

The reason I need the drive is that I have to install my Promise RAID adapters drivers during installation. You know, press F6 to install 3rd party SCSI and RAID adapters. When it gets to the point where it is supposed to ask you to insert the floppy drive with the adapters drivers, the winXP installer gives me an error message that no floppy drive was detected.

 

Now I can take the cover off the machine and install a floppy temporarily, but that seems like a colossal pain in the ole bunghole. This defeats the whole purpose of owning a LS120 drive.

 

This would seem like a major oversite on Microsofts part if their OS installer doesn't recognize the LS120 drive during installation.

 

One more question, if I do a clean install of WinXP on a machine that already has win2000 installed will it create a boot menu so I can choose which OS I want to use? Similar to what win2000 does if you do a clean install from an existing win98 installation. I already set up a 6 GB partition to mess around with WinXP without having to worry about screwing up my current win2000 installation. If things crap out on my I'll just reformat the entire winXP installation and start all over again, now you know why I am so anxious to get this LS120 drive working.

 

Any help is welcome

 

rock on

 

ds

 

Here are my system specs, if this really makes any difference

 

ABIT BE6-II, flashed to latest BIOS (not version 2.0 board)

P3-700

256 MB PC133

Soundblaster LIVE

Plextor UltraPLEX [i am bootin the Win installation to this drive]

SIIG SCSI adapter

PlexWriter (4x)

Imation LS120 drive

GeForce DDR, ASUS pure

(2) IBM 75GXP DTLA-307030 30 GB drives

Promise ULTRAtrack100 RAID adapter

3COM etherlink 10/100 network card

[Yearout 0]

Howdy, I have the drive on IDE 1 slave and my hard drives on a Promise

ATA 100. I turned off the 144 in bios. Then said it could boot from ls120 drive. That was it.

 

Asus 815e

[D-money 0]

The drive works fine as a boot device, I use it all the time.

 

I take it you were able to install WinXP with the LS120 as your floppy drive?

 

Maybe the WinXP installer got all freaked out since I booted to the install disc instead of booting to the LS120 drive and running the WinXP installer from the DOS prompt. If this is the case it would seem incredibly gay, but then again nothing surprises me anymore.

 

What really bothers my is that I can install my LS120 drive no problem once the OS is installed, but I can't use it as a floppy device during installation.

 

Personally I suspect that for what ever reason Microsoft assumes that no one uses these drives as a replacement for their floppy drives and therefore their installer doesn't recognize it as a floppy device.

[Yearout 0]

Thats strange because mine works great. When whistler ask for the disk it sees it fine. Wish I could be more help..

[D-money 0]

No problemo, at least one person got it to work and it doesn't seem like you had to jump through any hoops to have it work. At least this makes me want to take a much closer look at my installation procedure.

[Brian Frank 0]

Maybe you should just hook up a floppy for the install of WinXP. You still got one laying around...right? If not, fdd's are cheap to pick up.