I'm trying to help a friend get his new SATAII HD working.

He has a GIGABYTE GA-K8NF-9 Mobo, it has NVIDIA nForce4 chipset.
Some reason i cannot get it to install win2kpro on it, i tried booting it off a floppy to fdisk/formatt his SATAII HD but it will not boot off a floppy even if i have it set to floppy first in bios.
It keeps trying to boot off CDRom and if no cd is in there it will lockup.

I visted Gigabyte website and downloaded the pre-install drivers and done what it said, but once win2kpro ask for the drivers, it doesn't detect them in the floppy, it keeps asking me to insert the floppy with the drivers on it each time i press enter for it to look on the floppy drive.

We have a legit copy of win2kpro but cannot get it to fully install on SATAII HD, we only have one HD pluged in so not sure what all i need to disable/enable in the bios to make it work.

If we allow it to boot off the CDRom it will go through and ask us to format, after formatting it will start copying windows files over but soon as it reboots it will start that all over again and not continue.

The BIOS should have a selection to either set the SATA as IDE so it will use one drive similar to an IDE (PATA), or set the SATA as RAID if you are using two drives in a RAID configuration.

Most of the SATA driver packages are an image file that has to be run to create the driver disc. When booting to the CD to install Windows, near the beginning you'll see a line to 'Press F6 to install special drivers', or something to that effect. If the disc is correct, it should display the driver selection after it finishes loading preliminary files.