This information is just plain wrong. You do NOT need a floppy drive or slipped stream disk for SATA. You can put the SATA controller in to Legacy or IDE mode and XP will recognize it just fine. There are only a couple of circumstances where you need to slipstream or use a floppy. One is if you insist on using AHCI. AHCI is nice as it provides stuff like NCQ, but its not a necessity. Outside of AHCI, you only need to slipstream or use a floppy if you have a semi-recent RAID card that XP doesn't have drivers for, or if your card won't go in to legacy mode. If you are in this 'minority', then you should be able to easily find a CD burner and/or a USB floppy drive. FYI, even Windows 98 lets you install on a SATA drive.