mpiscitello,

Spend the $12 and get a floppy drive.  You will not use it much, but if you do not have it, you will miss it a lot...

Steve

Getting the floppy would be the easier option. However, I hear there is a way to reformat without having to use the floppy. It involves integrating the drivers on to a newly burned bootable XP CD (using your original XP CD from Dell as the source, of course). The drivers will be on the Dell Resource CD that comes with your system (or you can download them at the download section at dell.com).

Message Edited by TTetpos on 12-03-2004 04:30 PM

no I don't remember - hopefully someone from Dell will jump in here...

Here's a thread that might interest you.

I would hope that the drivers are already integrated. I suppose an official from Dell needs to confirm this.

Do you remember where you may have come across that reading?

Thanks!  That's the info I was looking for - I'm assuming XP Pro SP2 would be the same.

My new XPS Gen 3 came with XP Home with SP2.  It includes the chipset software and the RAID/AHCI driver.   No need for the floppy drive.