Computer help needed!

[almo75]

I had a buddy of mine ask me to build him a rack mountable computer to act as a digital jukebox in his barn. In the pile of parts brought to me there is a SATA HD and no floppy drive. Won't I need to put drivers on a floppy and hit F6 at the right time to recognize the SATA hard drive? I have not messed with SATA drives for a few years now and had a heck of a time on my last attempt. Is this something that still needs to be done? He wants Media Center as the O/S. The motherboard is an Intel D945GCPE if that makes a difference.
Thanks for any help you can throw my way.
Seems strange to ask this here but with the diversity of people I figured it was worth a shot.

 

[Reefscape]

You wont need to install drivers for SATA on install of Windows...You only use the F6 install option if its a SCSi device or a raid array....So, no need for a floppy drive

 

[almo75]

Thanks Reef!
Years ago I used to get the blue screen of death half way through loading the O/S. I will give it go.

 

[excuzzzeme]

As long as you have a CD drive your all set!

 

[Mgamer20o0]

lol how many years ago? lol get with the program sata is the way to go now

 

[247Plants]

Smash it all with a hammer!

Down with technology!

 

[The Zigman]

SATA is the way!

I use a thumb drive and CDR...

I'm building a dual core dual processor xeon 3.8 GHZ right now...

 

[247Plants]

Smash it all with a hammer!

Down with technology!

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[Draal5]

That takes me back when sata's first became widely available yes you did need a floppy which was just about the time floppy drives not usually included on new computers. but that was the good old days when you would need that hammer because its better than this:wall:.

But no and thank god no more floppies are needed

 

[Preeths]

Plug in the hard ware and you should be able to boot from the CD. You have to partition the HDD before installing the OS. I have found that installing all the S/W you need on a computer takes hours of boring work(done this for so many friends i have lost count) especially when done for free....I should be calling in all those favors when i need to clean all my tanks.