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does anyone know if a usb zipdrive will work? i am sure as **** not going to
waste my money (even $20) on a bloody floppy drive. i swore off of them many
years ago. all my hd's are sata and none of them are using raid. does this
mean i am screwed as to installing x64?

"Rick" wrote:

> If you mean a USB floppy drive, you can load the drivers on many
> computer with a USB floppy. You have to enable "legacy support" in your
> BIOS for the USB floppy to be seen by the installation program.
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> Mark Gillespie wrote:
> > Charlie Russel - MVP got up from the bar and shouted: :
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> >> It's perfectly compatible right now. You just need drivers from your
> >> OEM. That's not particularly remarkable, you need them for 32-bit XP
> >> right now for many controllers. It's not hard to obtain the drivers,
> >> and while I agree it's an annoyance to use F6 when you first install,
> >> that's the only time you need to worry about it. Once it's installed,
> >> you're good.
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> > Assuming you have a 15 year old 1.44Mb floppy disk fitted, otherwise
> > your pretty much screwed when it comes to installing SATA drivers for XP64.
> >
> > A very embarrassing undersight IMHO by Microsoft. You would think in
> > this day and age, setup could load drivers of a USB drive, but then it
> > XP X64 is running a hacked NT3.51 setup from 15 years ago...
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