Stephen wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:05:18 GMT, Chris <>
> had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:
>
>
>>I have a Shuttle system, with RAID controller on motherboard.
>>Hard Disk is installed on the RAID controller to free up IDE channel for
>>DVD unit and better performance.
>>
>>I've got a card reader instead of a floppy, so on original install i had
>>to press F6 to install 3rd party RAID drivers, hang a floppy drive out
>>of the case to install them from floppy disk, then bingo....Windows
>>recognises the hard drive on RAID controller and installs fine.
>>
>>After 15 months...I now need to do a clean Windows reinstall....got
>>problems similar to a few people with Broadcom LAN not being detected on
>>cold boot, disappearing CD drives, and loads of junk to remove..etc..
>>
>>I always prefer to do a format and clean install...but then i suspect
>>i'd have to to open the case, connect floppy drive and go through the
>>same process again....i'm loathe to do this because it's so tight and
>>fiddly inside the box, you need 3 hands and baby size fingers..(which i
>>don't have....).
>>
>>Is there some way i can use my XP install CD to do a clean re-install of
>>Windows, WITHOUT going through the process of needing to reinstall these
>>RAID drivers from a floppy disk?
>>
>>Cheers.
>
>
> Check out Nlite and RyanVM's update pack to make a XP cd with the
> drivers.
>
> http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=89
> http://ryanvm.msfn.org/
>
> Stephen
>
>
A lower-tech solution, but better than the poster's original idea, is to
use a USB floppy drive. You'd have to make sure your Shuttle works with
USB floppies (I'm fairly sure it shouldn't be a problem); this worked
fine for my SN85G4V2.
good luck...
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