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kenneth_2 · Guest

Well, first, here are my specs:

Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI nForce4 Athlon 64(FX)/64 X2 Dual-Core Skt939 DDR ATX Motherboard w/Audio, Gigabit LAN, RAID/Serial ATA Retail

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y160M0 160GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer

I have all the documentation for the motherboard, but the hd came bare. I have the drivers on a cd from my motherboard for a sata hd. I just finished building a new comp and am currently installing windows xp onto the hd. I press f6 and then s, and tells me to insert the disk labelled manufacturer-supplied hardware support disk into drive A. So I insert the floppy I created with the drivers for it and then press enter. It says please wait and then give me the same screen.

My motherboard documentation states that i can also load the drivers through dos mode. So I created a start up disk and put it in, told bios to boot from floppy first and saved it, but it still goes straight to boot from cd.

I even tried to install windows 98 to get the drivers onto the hd through win 98 dos. But I still cannot get into dos mode on either 98 or xp.

Is there another way that i can get into dos through bios or something, for I cannot install xp until I get the drivers for the hd.

Any help would be greatly appreciated and I thank you for your time.