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Need Quick Help Refomatting XP with a SATA HD

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    Ok ive searched this forum and found good helpful information on reformatting my dell computer with windows XP, but I rebooted, went to the boot menu with f12, and it turns out I have a SATA Hardrive. All advice found on this forum states I need to load the drivers from the manufacturer's CD onto a floppy disk and use it while reformatting. Now I have two problems with this step.

    1) To my knowledge Dell never gave me a motherboard CD with the necessary drivers.

    2) My computer does NOT have a floppy disk drive.

    Now is there a way to reformat without the drivers on a CD and without a floppy drive to load them? I hope so...

    Of course any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.
     
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