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Need all new SATA & NIC drivers?

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by kabul4life

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Hello Guys,

as you guys know the xp sp2 wont detect the SATA and New Nic drivers. and that is reason we can not install Xp over the Vista because Xp is unable to recognise sata hdd.

my point is i want all SATA and Nic drivers from different vendors in one folder . i dont wanna go thier sites i wanna be able to only download one folder which it should have all the drivers for SATA.

I believe that they are some nice guys out there who sorts driver for us. like in fruit market others sorts banana lol

thanks in advance for ur link to that folder :)

Kabul

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by thechas

There is no such thing as a universal SATA or NIC driver. It would take many DVD disks to begin to hold all of the drivers one would need to be able to support all of the different storage and network devices that exist.

The closest thing you can get is a site like:

http://www.windrivers.com/

The driver guy has links to nearly every driver you could ever need or want.

As to the issue of Windows XP and SOME device drivers. It is true that some of the newest hardware does not have drivers for XP. That does not by any way mean that you cannot install XP onto SATA drives. The PC I am using right now has a SATA drive and Windows XP SP2 installed without even needing the SATA driver.

Now, many notebooks do have hardware that does not have driver support for XP. The big issue here is the cost of developing and testing device drivers. There is little or no payback for the cost incurred to write a XP driver. Even less for the cost to get the driver certified by Microsoft.

What many people do not remember, is that we went through similar issues with Windows 98 support back in 2002.

Chas

by kabul4life

Thanks for taking your time and writing me guys.

i actually fix computers and every week i see people coming with thier new laptops and they want to have XP instead of vista. because Vista is installed on each new laptops s0 that is why i was wondering to have all of drivers at once :).

but thanks guy i would manaully download drivers and use my floppy with F6 if you know what i mean :P

by oh smeg

But if you don't want to visit numerous sites to get the drivers most of them should be available here

http://www.drivers.com/

All the drivers would take up a lot of space and not be needed but if you want to download and use the most common ones that may be possible and then you could incorporate them into a Slipstreamed Install Disc with nLite maybe

http://www.nliteos.com/download.html

That may work but as I've never tried it I'm not sure.

Of course as new hardware becomes available you'll need to continue to add drivers.

Col

by thechas

Your links are interesting. But, I don't generally trust third party drivers.

Still, the ATA driver may be enough to get most systems up and running and you may be able to install the manufactures driver after you get the system working.

I'm not sure that the TCP/IP boot disk will do what this peer wants to do. You normally use a network boot to get a system up and install an image from a network drive. One may need to extract specific network drivers as needed for a local install system.

Still, interesting and valuable links. It is good to know that third party drivers are still being written and compiled.

Chas

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NT.

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