Windows 7 - SATA Drivers - Load in Windows XP Setup on Dual Boot

I see that the process says you need to have a floppy drive. My two systems that I am working with do not have floppies. But maybe I do not need it. Here is my plan. Please tell me if I'm nuts.

I currently have an xp pro machine running on a sata drive. Home grown.
I have since built a newer faster machine also with sata drives running windows 7 64 bit.

I really would like to keep this xp pro machine too since it has a bunch of apps that I am afraid will not run under windows 7 and even if they did I am not sure where the downloads are that I got them from.

OK so here is my idea. I take out the C drive from the xp machine and put it in with the other sata drives in my new win 7 machine. Go do the dual boot and tell it to point to the drive that has the xp pro on it. Being that it already has sata drivers will it work?

I have never done a dual boot but am not a total virgin to hardware and software. Just really do not want to have to load the windows 7 all over again as I have it running pretty good with a ton of adobe software.

Any ideas if I should just trash this idea or go for it. I have EasyBCD but have never used it. If someone who maybe has done this before could hold my hand or at the least point me to somewhere that has some instructions.

Thanks

I am in a conundrum. I am using Pavilion Magnesium Gray Edition p6540f. There are no SATA Drivers for XP. How do I dual boot without it?

I am trying to load XP on a dual boot so I can use IPX, go figure MS thinks no one still uses IPX.

So how do I load SAT drivers when I can't use a USB?

Thanks...

It appears that Intel Driver version 9.6.0.1014 is what I need for XP Pro 32 and it is also the driver that is currently in use on my Gateway laptop. Does that mean I won't need to be ready with a driver on floppy at F6?

I have the Intel(R) 5 Series 4 Port SATA AHCI Controller.
The processor is Intel(R) Core (TM) i5 CPU M460@2.53GHz
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 1GB VRAM