Setup does not recognise keyboard input

[Jarls]

Guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get an external floppy drive and disk to go with it.

Sigh. I thought we'd moved on from the stone ages of computing.

 

[Matthew DeCarlo]

I'm always sure to include a floppy drive with my builds. Despite the fact that it's useless for storage/backups and general computing, for <$10 it's an investment for some of the "uh oh" kind of situations you may come across.

Who knows, maybe you'll find yourself in a situation sometime soon where it proved itself to be useful .

 

[Rick]

Guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get an external floppy drive and disk to go with it.

Sigh. I thought we'd moved on from the stone ages of computing.

Well, keep in mind that XP is over 7 years old.

Here's a random guide on using nlite to integrated nvidia SATA/RAID drivers onto a CD:
http://www.msfn.org/board/Integration-NVIDIA-nForce-Raid-and-SATA-drivers-t51140.html

* Just discovered the link above was posted earlier in this thread. lol

 

[Jarls]

Well, I've got a floppy drive and disk and i'll transfer the files onto the floppy soonish. Wish me luck!

 

[Matthew DeCarlo]

Luck!

Everything should be fine (hopefully) .

 

[Jarls]

Well, as I'm posting here it means it didn't work. After inputting the floppy i ran setup and pressed f6 at the appropriate time. Up came 2 things that it read on the floppy and whether i wanted to continue with them. I went ahead and after some loading it still came up with:

Unable to find a Hard disk. Please ensure you have one yadda yadda yadda.

*facepalm and destroy computer*

 

[Jarls]

No-one else has any suggestions?

 

[Matthew DeCarlo]

Mmm, try one of the other driver methods suggested (such as slipstreaming).

Not even sure if it matters, but I guess it's worth trying. Is your HDD attached to the very first SATA port?

 

[Jarls]

Yep. Well, when looking in the setup its the first one that appears in the SATA list.

 

[Matthew DeCarlo]

Well, the only thing that I can think of if you can't alter the SATA settings within the BIOS (to have it run as an ATA device), then, buy a SATA to ATA adapter. After you install Windows, just reconnect it as SATA.