how to install windows 2000 on sata drives without needing a floppy / adding separate drivers during setup?

ewan, i have used windows 7 a lot in my computer builds and i like it, my laptop uses windows 7, the reason why i want to use windows 2000 is because i like also experimenting with older windows operating systems, i used windows 98 second edition and ran a full gigabyte of ram, and was able to watch youtube videos smoothly. as far as that goes, what you said about the ahci part, i cant seem to find that in the bios, i can look again though.

tumbleweed_biff, i wasnt asking for sata drivers, i was asking how to install sata drives in ide mode since apparently this allows for compatibility for older operating systems. there are actually windows 2000 sata drivers, just not official ones, i found them on some site, i dont remember the name but its not really that important because im just looking for basic functionality and wouldn't need them anyways.

ewan, i could not find anything that says ahci or ide / compatibility / legacy, i did disable the sata controller, saved the settings, rebooted, went back to the bios and see what changed but i didnt see any changes. could disabling the sata controller mean running in ide compatibilty mode perhaps? im just guessing, i researched this and i couldnt really find any valid information, this is the only thing i can think of.

turns out i was able to install w2000 on both the sata dvd burner and sata hard drive. i made a mistake though, disabling the sata controller actually makes it so none of the sata devices appeared, i renenabled it, both reappeared and went ahead and installed windows 2000 with no issues. only problem is i rushed through the formatting / partitioning process and i ended up only installing 80GB of the 320GB hdd i had due to errors, but its no problem, 80 GB is still plenty of space.

but now i have a different problem, i cant connect to the internet, or at least i dont know how, i tried to connect the computer using a wired ethernet connection, but the computer didnt even detect anything, i tried to use the wifi pci card i had on a different computer ( which does support windows 2000 ), but after installing, i received errors such as media disconnected / network cable unplugged.