The motherboard manual says that, if I want to configure my HDDs as RAID, I must create a floppy disk with the sata drivers in order to install them during windows setup. I currently don't have a floppy drive. Can I put the drivers on a cd or some other external drive or will windows only read a floppy at that point in the installation?
you can take your XP disk and build a new OS disk (this is legal so long as you dont distribute it) and burn it w/ the raid drivers on the OS disk. There are a few guides for building driver slipstream Xp disks...
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