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UPDATE: I changed out the EXPENSIVE RAM with Kingston value ram.... INSTALLED WITH OUT ONE GLITCH Swapped out 2nd HD and did new install to verify... PERFECT !!! NOT ONE ERROR Swapped out 3rd HD and installed again to verify... PERFECT !!! NOT ONE ERROR Thanks for the input peeps...

The files from the floppy are successfully copied, it's the ones from the XP installation disk that won't copy to the SATA HD during copy process... some of them are mf.sys, fsvga.dll, etc,. all of these are on the XP CD not the floppy. I have also changed out the CD drive... NO luck. I contacted Gigabyte Tech and they are going to send me the latest drivers with detailed "HOW TO" instructions for the SATA Thanks for your input and I'll post if & when I have success. Any more suggestions???? FROG

OK ... but why would the floppy prevent all this? FROG

Hello all, SYSTEM SET UP : I am installing xp pro (legal copy) on a system I am building. The mother board is Gigabyte GA-8KNXP cpu is 3.0GHz/1mb/800fsb (2) 1gig sticks dual channel ram 250gb SATA hd DVD/rw CD/RW 256mb 8x Nvidia PROBLEM : During Setup, I press F6 and enter floppy with SATA drivers. Drivers load... setup begins...later setup halst saying "setup cannot copy file:***.***...I presws enter to retry...no luck. I put in a second (legal) copy of xp pro to see if it can copy from it... NO LUCK. after pressing retry for 30 min. I press esc to bypass thr file. This happens to 7-9 more files. Once copying is complete, system reboots to complete the setup process. During this phase, it halts telling me it can not load the installer for CDROM I press OK. continues for a while and halts again saying cannot load BATTERY(this is not a laptop !) press OK to cont. then halts saying cannot install the hardware...(what hardware) press OK to cont. "WHAT" Blue scree of death... in XP ??? lol "LIST CORRUPT" NOTES : This is not a one time incident. I have tried this no less than 10 times I have 3 of these 250gb SATA and tried each one seperatly.... I feel it has something to do with setting up on a SATA vs IDE Can any one help FROG