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lol, hardnrg knows it all :withstupid:

 

anyway, I gotta get a frekin floppy drive soon too, I have an SATA drive (WD Caviar 160GB) and once in the windows installation it asked me for the drivers, the second time I tried it didn't, and I didn't install any other drivers!!! How weird is that? :blink:

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* you can slipstream the raid/sata drivers on to the xp cd

* you can make a bootable cd or usb drive to flash your bios / upgrade firmware

* you can make a bootable memtest86 cd or usb drive

 

so, you don't strictly NEED a floppy... but it can be a pain or more hassle to do stuff on usb (linux bootable for memtest86 for example) or on cd (burn a cd for a bios flash? lol)

 

i still have a floppy drive on my two main rigs

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Just as he has said, all of those ways work. I dont have a floppy drive in my computer 24/7, but when i do feel like reformatting, I just hang it out the side when doing my raid setup, then i take it out.

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* you can slipstream the raid/sata drivers on to the xp cd

* you can make a bootable cd or usb drive to flash your bios / upgrade firmware

* you can make a bootable memtest86 cd or usb drive

 

so, you don't strictly NEED a floppy... but it can be a pain or more hassle to do stuff on usb (linux bootable for memtest86 for example) or on cd (burn a cd for a bios flash? lol)

 

i still have a floppy drive on my two main rigs

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in addition, you can do bios flashes thru windows. I find flashing it in windows much easier and safer

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