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Well, in the continuing saga of getting my new PC running, I've hit what currently is a major roadblock. I purchased a Maxtor 300GB SATA drive yesterday and easily installed it in the case and connected it to the motherboard. Getting Windows to see it is another story. It seems that Windows doesn't know about SATA drives. OK...I'll accept that. I need to load a driver. But...Windows will only load drivers from a floppy drive during the install process! Using Microsoft's new lingo, this is a super major mistake. Windows XP is not that old. There should be an option to install a driver from a CD. Hopefully Windows Vista will resolve this issue.

But there is more to the story. All the motherboard drivers on the Intel CD are in an EXE that...you guessed it... can only run from Windows....and only if the motherboard is an Intel board. How the hell am I supposed to extract the SATA drivers to get this stuff installed?

So, I still don't have a running PC. I'll be calling the computer store where I bought the parts once they open later this morning.