XP prof. install with USB-FDD A drive and SATA Hard drive

If you have a USB floppy (I won't ask why), you should
have a bootable CD-ROM drive and BIOS. As I remember,
bootable CDs came out around the PII/USB time. Sorry- no
real advice. I haven't gotten a chance to play with SATA
yet, but if it is backward compatable with ATA, as ATA has
historically been, you could install it off a ATA133
controller, then install the drivers and switch.
Better... Add the SATA drivers to the CD.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi.
>
>The problem is quite serious. I bought the following
>components:
>
>ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard and Maxtor SATA hard drive.
>
>I don't have a normal FDD drive. Instead i have an USB-

FDD

>as my only floppy drive. Now both my previous HD's broke
>within 10 minutes so i need to make a fresh install (XP
>Pro). How can i do this?
>
>When i press F6 to specify SCSI driver for the SATA drive
>everything is still ok (after disabling normal FDD from
>BIOS i got the USB-FDD to work). But after XP setup has
>created the list of files to be copied the setup cannot
>find my USB-FDD drive anymore. And because of that the
>setup causes either blue screen of you know what or if i
>press F3 to exit... then it exits.
>
>JP
>.
>