I just finished building my computer the other day and was ready to do a clean install of XP on it. I do have a SATA hard drive, but I know that is not the problem. I get through formatting and partitioning, but when I get to copying files they seem to not want to copy. It tells me that - The Setup file is an invalid windows image. It is a regular cd and I have used it before. I did try a 2000 cd and that did not work either. However, DOS worked and so I am positive after about 10 hours of research all DOS based windows 9x work too. The motherboard detects my hard drive fine but it might have to do with how the motherboard sees ntfs or something. HELP ME PLEASE!

MB: Gigabyte GA-8ipe1000 Pro-G
CPU: Intel P4 3.2 800Mhz 512kb
Mem: Corsair XMS Pro 512mb PC3200C2
HD: Seagate SATA 120gb
VC: EVGA Nvidia 5900se
SC: Creative Audigy 2 ZS
DVD-Rom