The drivers you need to install at the F6 prompt are not the hard drive drivers but the controller drivers. The controller drivers are on the CD that came with the motherboard. You would need to transfer them onto a floppy disk.
As far as you problems with the stop error, it almost sounds like you have a bad image or the file system is corrupt. You might try and do a fresh install.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=130801