Hi,
I just built my first system. It is a $350 budget box with an AMD Anthlon 64 X2 4200+ processor, 1GB of RAM, an MSI ATX motherboard, a IDE DVD+RW drive, and two IDE HDDS (80GB and 30GB). The motherboard I got has one IDE connector on it, so because of this I could connect my HDDs and not my DVD drive or vice-versa.
Today, I went out and bought what I believe to be a solution to this problem: a $30 PCI RAID card with an additional IDE connector and two SATA connectors. I don't really want to create a RAID setup, I just needed the extra connector. I go home, plug it in, plug my HDDs into the RAID card and the DVD drive into the motherboard. The BIOS recognizes the HDD fine, so I pop in the Windows XP Pro disc, and it can't find my HDD. I try again, this time saying I wanted to install a RAID driver because it came with a CD with drivers on it and it says I need a floppy disc. The thing is, I don't even have a floppy drive! I swapped the DVD drive and HDD cables seeing if it would work that way and it didn't.
What can I do to get Windows working without buying a floppy drive (budget can't afford it)?
Thanks!
I just built my first system. It is a $350 budget box with an AMD Anthlon 64 X2 4200+ processor, 1GB of RAM, an MSI ATX motherboard, a IDE DVD+RW drive, and two IDE HDDS (80GB and 30GB). The motherboard I got has one IDE connector on it, so because of this I could connect my HDDs and not my DVD drive or vice-versa.
Today, I went out and bought what I believe to be a solution to this problem: a $30 PCI RAID card with an additional IDE connector and two SATA connectors. I don't really want to create a RAID setup, I just needed the extra connector. I go home, plug it in, plug my HDDs into the RAID card and the DVD drive into the motherboard. The BIOS recognizes the HDD fine, so I pop in the Windows XP Pro disc, and it can't find my HDD. I try again, this time saying I wanted to install a RAID driver because it came with a CD with drivers on it and it says I need a floppy disc. The thing is, I don't even have a floppy drive! I swapped the DVD drive and HDD cables seeing if it would work that way and it didn't.
What can I do to get Windows working without buying a floppy drive (budget can't afford it)?
Thanks!