You can't succeed with the F6/floppy method, if you are booting off a Windows OS CD, which has been prepared for an unattended installation.Look into the i386 directory of your OS CD. If you find a file named WINNT.SIF, you will not be able to get the OS installed by loading the textmode drivers via F6. Reason: Windows Setup looks for the WINNT.SIF file. If the file is present, it expects, that the needed SATA/RAID drivers have been integrated into the OS CD as textmode driver. This is irritating, because the Setup accepted the F6 drivers first of all, but afterwards it "forgets" them. Solution: You have either to boot off a clean (original) Windows OS CD (if you want to use the F6 option) or to create a new nLited OS CD with integrated textmode drivers. In the latter case you shouldn't hit F6 at all. I had this problem too when I was using a unattended installation. So I was installing using the "original" version, then it goes with success. Only in this laptop I'm having this huge problem. About the floppy error, maybe it's because what cdob said. I only don't understand why I can load a driver from floppy but cannot from an integrated driver.