How do you install a SATA disk without a floppy drive for win xp?
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i am a hardware tech.\nit is very simple.just follow these steps.\ni am assuming this is a  second hard drive.\n1)connect it to the computer.\n2)turn it on.\n3)enter the bios.\n4)enable the disk\n5)restart\n6)boot to windows as usual\n7)you should be able to see the new hard drive in my computer\n8)format it.\n9)you are done.\nif you need further assistence..\nwrite to me at:\naanonymouus@yahoo.com
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Get a windows boot disk, go to ftp://mrsison.com then go to tools and then click boot98se.exe\nAfter you download and open the file, download the contents to a floppy.  Then boot the computer with the floppy inside.  \n\nYou will now be at a dos prompt with cd rom support.
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1.  turn the computer on\n2.  insert your Windows XP installation CD.  Note that this must be a full installation CD... not the backup CD's you get from Dell or Gateway.\n3.  reboot your computer.  when prompted to press a key to boot from CD... press any key.\n4.  Follow the onscreen prompts to install windows\n5.  It will ask you which partition you wish to install windows on... as this point you will have the option of deleting the partition.  Choose the option to delete the existing partitiong which will be named "C:"\n6.  follow the prompts to confirm deletion.  YOU WILL LOSE ALL DATA.  make backups of anything you want to save\n7.  you will be returned to the "choose a partition" screen.  instead of having a C: partition you will now see a listing for "Unpartitioned space".  choose the unpartitioned space.\n8.  Setup will prompt you to enter how large you want the partition to be.  enter in the size in Megabytes you want the new partition to be.  1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte.\n9.  Choose the option to do a full formet.  NOT the quick format.  Depending on the size of the parition your making you may want to go out and have lunch ;).\n10.  when the partition is finished formating choose the new C: option in the "choose a partition" screen.\n11.  follow the prompts to re-install windows.
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I'm a little confused about the wording, but if i understand you correctly, you are worried about installing a new Hard Drive on a computer that doesn't have a floppy disk drive correct?  If you are simply adding another hard drive to a computer, you don't have to format it.  Just attach the hard drive as specified in the directions (with the correct four pronged power cable and IDE/ATA/SATA cable) and make sure that the hard drive has the pin selector set at either "cable select" or "slave".  The computer does the rest.  No format needed.  Most hard drives come ready to plug in and use.
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First, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR:\n\nPLEASE, right-click on this, choose 'Select All', and then right-click and selct 'Copy'.  Then Open Wordpad, or whatever you wish, and print THE WHOLE THANG ... \n\nThis 1st section is from XP Help, keyword search 'boot'\n\nTo create an MS-DOS startup disk\nThe MS-DOS startup disk you create will allow you to boot into MS-DOS.\n\nInsert a floppy disk into your computer's floppy drive. \nOpen My Computer, and then click the floppy disk drive to select it. \nOn the File menu, point to the name of the floppy drive, and then click Format. \nUnder Format options, click Create an MS-DOS startup disk. \nClick Start. \n Important\n\nCreating an MS-DOS startup disk erases all information on the floppy disk. \n Notes\n\nTo open My Computer, click Start, and then click My Computer. \nThe MS-DOS startup disk only allows the system to boot into an MS-DOS prompt. The disk contains no additional tools. \n\n\nOnce you get to this point, you have finished the boot-disk creation process as outlined in XP Help.  Shut down the PC and make sure that in your boot sequence,  that A: precedes C:.  If you are not sure how this done, then follow the 'Steps for Changing BIOS Boot Sequence" below, otherwise skip to the 'Formatting a Hard-Disk' section :\n\nSteps for changing BIOS boot sequence :\n1. Shut down the computer.\n2. Remove all floppy disks, CDs, and removable media of \n   any kind.\n3. Upon restart, At the bottom-left of the screen, you\n   should see a message simular to : \n   PRESS <THIS KEY> TO ENTER SETUP\n4. Press 'this key', whatever 'THIS KEY' may be.  On some  \n   machines it is DEL or DELETE.  On others it may be F2 \n   or even F10 or F11.\n5. Once you are into the BIOS SETUP MODE, go to the BOOT   \n   section and change the Boot Order to A: then C: or \n   CD-ROM, then A: then C:.  The only difference is the \n   latter one allows you to boot from a CD   Either way, \n   make sure that A: precedes C: in the BOOT SEQUENCE.\n   If you chose CD-ROM, A:, C: please make sure that all\n   CDs, DVDs, etc are removed from all CD/DVD drives.\n6. Choose the 'Exit Saving Changes' option and allow the  \n   system to reboot.  (Make sure that the new 'Boot Disk' \n   is in the A: drive.\n\n\n                  Formatting a Hard-Disk\n \n7.  It should load up some command tools into a RAMDRIVE \n    (a RAMDRIVE is a temporary drive stored in system \n    memory during this current boot session.  \n8.  Go to that drive by typing D: (assuming D: is the  \n    drive  \n    letter of the RAMDRIVE.\n9.  Somewhere either on the A: disk, in the RAMDRIVE is a \n    file called FORMAT.EXE.  To format the C: Drive, with\n    system boot files on it, type FORMAT C: /S /V\n\n10. THIS WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON YOUR MAIN BOOT DRIVE!\n    You WILL NOT have any way of undoing this, unless you\n    have a backup partion on your C: drive.  Even that will \n    only recover the factory installations, not anything \n    that you have installed yourself.\n\n11. If you would like a 100% CLEAN FORMAT with no system   \n    files what-so-ever, then type FORMAT C:\n    instead of the previously  mentioned command.\n\n12.  The process may take several hours, depending on the \n     SIZE of the HDD.\n\n\n    I hope that this helped; is please vote for my \n    answer as best answer, and rate it also ...
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u must buy a bootable cd if u don't have u can boot your system with a bootable floppy disk ,\n\nTo create an MS-DOS startup disk\nThe MS-DOS startup disk you create will allow you to boot into MS-DOS.\n\nInsert a floppy disk into your computer's floppy drive. \nOpen My Computer, and then click the floppy disk drive to select it. \nOn the File menu, point to the name of the floppy drive, and then click Format. \nUnder Format options, click Create an MS-DOS startup disk. \nClick Start\n\nthen chang you setting of the bios of your mother bord to startup with flopy\nthen insert your flopy disk the u can formmat your system drive in dos mode\nby typing format c:\nafter formatting restart and insert the windows cd
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you need a win98 start up floppy disk with cdrom support on it, it will install generic drivers to run the cd drive
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The simplest way is to use Partition Magic.  In that case you won't need to format the existing hard drive.  Since you already have Windows XP on the primary partition, it will already be formatted in NTFS.  That will save you an additional step.  I would recommend you to back up all your data initially.  The Partition Magic software lets you partition an existing hard drive with data on it.\n\nNow create a new partition from the existing one and format in the FAT32 format required by Windows 98.  Now you will have a FAT32 partition with no OS and the NTFS partition with XP as the primary OS.\n\nPop in the Windows 98 installation CD and restart the system (make appropriate changes in the BIOS to make the system boot from the Windows 98 CD).  When the installation menu comes, install Windows 98 as the OS on the FAT32 partition.\n\nThat should do the job.  If you are concerned about the efficacy of the partition Magic software follow the steps mentioned in the previous post.
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Assuming you have a XP disk.\n\n1. Make a start up disk (floppy)\n2. Boot from start up disk.\n3. At a: prompt type c:\n   If c is your hard drive\n4. At c: type format \n  Depending on the size of your hard drive this operation could take a while, up to 1 hour.\n5.  Now your hard drive is clean.  \n6. Re-boot your PC with start up disk in.\n7. Select CD support oprion.\n8. Insert XP CD. It should start installing by itself.
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Simply install XP on your zip drive when it ask how to format? ;-) simply type FAT 32 it will work
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put in a floppy, right click on A: drive, select format, select "Create a Windows Startup Disk" or whatever it says.  I don't have any floppies so I can't check, but it's very similar.
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contact your nearest cmputer shop i am definetly sure they have a cheap or free XP disk.
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You can't directly - from Windows ME support was more or less removed for drivespace compression, and with XP and other NTFS operating systems, Drivespace is not compatible.\n\nThe only way I know to get round your problem is to uncompress on a compatible computer, and copy the data onto uncompressed discs.
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You will need a floppy, go to start>settings>control panel>add/remove programs>click start up (insert floppy)>click create disk!
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Fixed Disk, as opposed to floppy disk
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Here's a great 'how to'\nhttp://www.lifehacker.com/software/windows/geek-to-live-how-to-format-your-hard-drive-and-install-windows-xp-from-scratch-157578.php\n\n///
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format c:/\nYou can also format the drive by just putting the xp disk into the drive and restarting the computer, when it asks which drive to install it too look at your options.  Delete the partition and create a new one.  Through the process you will format your drive.