Installing SATA Driver in Windows XP

[geraldd]

After having a hard time getting to the Boot from CD icon, I have set up the BIOS to Boot from CD. Now when XP Media Center starts up and asks me to press F-6 for other drives, I do that. When it asks me to press "s" and insert a disc with the appropriate drivers I have a CD. It then tells me that there is no "floppy" drive and I have to press F-3 to quit set-up. I finally bought an IDE hard drive for my first build-I know an easy way out, but it worked. This time, however, I am determined not to fail! What am I doing wrong?

Hardware: ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe, AMD Athlon 3000 XP, Corsair Value Select 3200 1G, 2ea NEC 3540 DVD-CD RW, 2 ea WD Caviar 80Gig SATA HD's, ATI All in Wonder 800 XT XCLIO 450W PSU, ANTEC Case

[Corky]

You have to extract the drivers from the Asus CD, and put them on a floppy. You MUST use a floppy to install at the F6 prompt unless you slipstream the SATA drivers into your Windows OS. I recommend you borrow a floppy if you don't want to buy one.

[geraldd]

Thank you, I will do this immediately. I have a floppy.