Unique problem involving duel boot.?

Question

Ok guys got a problem I know you guys will love. or gals I suppose. Anyway I have been having trouble reinstalling my duel boot system here reciently. I upgraded mobo/cpu/memory and of course windows absolutely loves it when you do that. I had a windows7/vista/xp/linux in a duel boot config. Upgradeing has made me redo this setup.
Not to bore you with the details here is my problem atm. I have repartationed my raid drive with gparted and have 1 large 1tb drive that when trying to install windows 7 says it cannot create a system partation. Normally I use windows xp to take care of this for me and is why I would normally install xp first but xp setup gives me a bsod when loading this isnt possible. Now on my previous setup my raid drivers were automaticly loaded when installing xp now however they don't. I took the drives out of raid to check 2 things. If my raid drives is why I'm getting bsod at xp setup and assuming I can get into xp setup if I use xp to format my drives if windows 7 can use them. Turns out I am right on both accounts. After formatting 1 of my drives into 2 pieces using xp (which will load setup assuming I'm not in raid) windows 7 will load on the partation I did not install xp on. Now all I have to do is do this in raid setup. However I have the problem that I have no floppy drive to load drivers on. So I have a few options.
1 format drives using xp on my old system (because xp finds those drivers automaticly)
2 buy a floppy drive
3 patch xp to make it load drivers
4 find a program that will format just like xp
problems
1 old system is fried not an option
2 buying one isn't prefered because of time constraints
3 never done it but might if nessary
4 best option but the only one i am filmilar with is gparted and it doesn't work right (are primary partations not system partations)

Thought, openions, suggestions
Thx for any help

Answer 1

3 - patch XP

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/02/08/how-to-integrate-floppy-sata-raid-driver-into-windows-xp-cd/

Answer 2

to boot you xp you can do 2 things



In BIOS set Raid to compatibility mode then run xp BSOD won't appear

load RAID drivers to USB or buy USB floppy and load drivers. to load through USB use web tutorials they will tell you how



hope one of these works !



Note: even if your xp picks up drivers automatically it can get BSOD any time so its dangerous.

Answer 3

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