Setup Drivers During OS Install From USB Flash Drive?

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Will - 21 Jun 2008 22:52 GMT

Is there any way with Windows XP to provide additional device drivers to the
Windows setup program using a USB flash drive instead of USB floppy?

Floppies take too long to format and prepare and they often have corruption
issues that just make them inefficient to work with.

If flash drives are allow, then how do you prepare them to work with the
Windows setup?

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DL - 22 Jun 2008 09:05 GMT

Assuming you refer to installing drivers using F6 option, then no.
You can create a slipstreamed installation cd containing the drivers.
You are concerned about time / corruption why? the last time I installed
using floppy was about 3 years ago
3 minutes for 3 years hardly a problem & a floppy can allways be redone

> Is there any way with Windows XP to provide additional device drivers to
> the
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> If flash drives are allow, then how do you prepare them to work with the
> Windows setup?

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Will - 30 Jun 2008 01:16 GMT

> Assuming you refer to installing drivers using F6 option, then no.
> You can create a slipstreamed installation cd containing the drivers.
> You are concerned about time / corruption why? the last time I installed
> using floppy was about 3 years ago
> 3 minutes for 3 years hardly a problem & a floppy can allways be redone

I formatted 10 old floppies and got 10 bad results. The media simply
failed to survive after many years and only a new floppy ultimately solved
thatproblem. It wasted three hours of time on a Sunday, and it's not
something I'm keen to repeat.

Creating a slipstream CD is a good idea but for those times when you do not
have one being able to grab the drivers from USB would be better than having
to choose between finding a good floppy and making a new slipstream CD.

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> > Is there any way with Windows XP to provide additional device drivers to
> > the
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> > If flash drives are allow, then how do you prepare them to work with the
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DL - 30 Jun 2008 11:16 GMT

Winxp will not take third party drivers from usb (assuming you refer to F6
option), period.
Winxp will not be updated to provide this function.
Vista will

>> Assuming you refer to installing drivers using F6 option, then no.
>> You can create a slipstreamed installation cd containing the drivers.
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>> > the
>> > Windows setup?

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