Thanks for your response!

I re-checked the drivers that I had saved on my External Floppy Drive, and
found that they were incorrect. So, I placed the correct drivers on the drive
and went through the F6 routine again..... this time it worked. (partially)

Then it asked me to insert the Intel Matrix Storage Manager drivers in drive
A:
As you said, the drive was not recognised now.

What other options do I have apart from borrowing an Internal Floppy drive?
Would slipstreaming the drivers into the Windows XP CD work?
If so, do you know how to do this?