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    Sony FW - USB Floppy for SATA (Do Specific Drives Work?)

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by essential, Oct 16, 2008.

  1. essential

    essential Notebook Guru

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    I was reading through the FW owners thread, and doing general net research. I know that although a USB floppy might be seen by a laptop, there is a second step when it won't be seen by the laptop that prevents you from actually loading the SATA drivers.

    I ended up on a microsoft support page, and I didn't bookmark it, but it seemed like there was a limited list of USB Floppy drives that will work for loading SATA drivers, but I didn't bookmark the site, and now I can't find it again.

    I have a Sony USB floppy drive, and i'm getting my CTO FW190 tomorrow and i'm all ready to install XP. I've read about nLite, and although I know I could do that if I had too, i'm trying to avoid it.

    Anyone know of the list i'm looking for?

    Also, I found this thread on another forum. Will this work with an FW in anyone opinion?

    http://www.msfn.org/board/F6-Driver-USB-Floppy-t82711.html

    Thanks.


    Edit:
    Found the Microsoft Link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916196
     
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  2. InfyMcGirk

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    I've never had to do it myself, but I understand there are guides on this forum of how to slipstream drivers using nLite. I don't think it's something to be too scared of, if it becomes necessary.

    I have a Panasonic USB floppy which has always worked for me with SATA drivers during XP installation, but I may have been lucky?
     
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  3. essential

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    Yea, I have a good guide about using nLite, but I bought the Windows XP SP3 OEM disc, I guess i'd just like to install from the original CD, not a burned copy if possible, especially since I have a USB floppy already.

    I'm going to try modding the one file like that other thread says, and see if it helps. I bought a new HD i'm installing into the FW as well, so the HD will be blank if something goes wrong i'm not loosing anything.
     
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