I have a Dell Inspiron that I believe the SATA hard disk went on it (wouldn't accept doot disk and would only format to 99%).

I switch it out with a the SATA drive from an broken (screen) ACER. I know that I need to slipstream a install CD with the Dell SATA controller driver on it. I went onto the Dell web site and they have my driver but it's an .exe file and nLite, the program I'm using to slipstream it, only takes .inf files.

Is there a solution.... workaround?