Installation issue / raid controller 1

[mackey333]

Ok, before I get into this can someone please remind me as to why a company as incompetent as M$ has so much of the operating system market share????

So I am trying to reinstall windows on my laptop. The laptop has 2 hard drives in a RAID array. When setup loads up, I press f6 indicating that I need to install a 3rd party driver. When it gets to the next screen, it tells me that there is no floppy drive so it cannot load the drivers. *Bangs head on desk* Well I don't have a floppy drive and I don't have access to the disk that came with the pc (you know the one that is supposed to be windows but comes preloaded with a bunch of nonsense). Stupidly, I figured I would put the drivers on my usb jump drive and install them that way. You guessed it! Windows could not read the drivers from the usb drive. Interestingly enough, windows did however offer to install itself on the 512mb jump drive??? *Bangs head on disk again* So what are my options here?

Is there any way that I could put my driver files in the XP cd somewhere (I noticed that it loads up a bunch of drivers from somewhere while setup is loading)? If this might work where on the cd would they go? Hypothetically speaking of course, I wouldn't want to break any laws or make any unauthorized additions to the OS. ;-) Thanks for any suggestions!!

-Greg :-Q

 

[linney]

Run through some of the ideas and suggestions mentioned in this thread.

Error Message:Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in you
thread779-972802

Do post back how you eventually solve this problem.

 

[mackey333]

Thanks for the suggestions. I ended up borrowing a usb floppy drive from a friend who works at the computer lab. For some reason that I can't quite wrap my head around, Windows could recognize a usb floppy drive but not a usb jump drive. Sigh.

-Greg :-Q