Driver Packs?

swinnie

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Hi Guys

I'm in the process of making a load of nLite disks for XP Home and XP Pro with Integrated service packs, and it occurred to me that with XP I need to load the SATA drivers for the machine for it to recognise a SATA drive.

I was wondering, if there is a driver pack that I can integrate with the nLite installation? Extra drivers would be an extra bonus...

I fix a lot of computers in the local area, and would like to "simplify" this as much as possible.

Thanks.
 
You'd need the driver for the SATA controller or the motherboard. You could always use DriverGrabber (from Siginet Software v0.5.1) to grab all the drivers on a local PC and then archive those.
 
XP with SP3 slipstreamed is already a tight fit for a CD. If you were to add a large amount of SATA and RAID drivers into it as well i think you would have difficulties burning it to a CD. You might be able to write to a 90 or 99-minute CD but in my experience these won't read in all CD/DVD drives. Never tried burning an XP ISO to a DVD, might be worth a try on an RW disc.

Don't know how you would guess all the popular drivers you would need though, my guess is that's a list that will forever be changing and growing.
 
mattross said:
XP with SP3 slipstreamed is already a tight fit for a CD. If you were to add a large amount of SATA and RAID drivers into it as well i think you would have difficulties burning it to a CD. You might be able to write to a 90 or 99-minute CD but in my experience these won't read in all CD/DVD drives. Never tried burning an XP ISO to a DVD, might be worth a try on an RW disc.

Don't know how you would guess all the popular drivers you would need though, my guess is that's a list that will forever be changing and growing.
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XP with SP3 is only 575 Mb.
 
You can also remove a lot of the crap, I've got a SP3 disk which is around 275MB. I've taken a lot of the useless drivers out, and programs which will never be used bear in mind this is for a pretty old PC.
 
mattross said:
XP with SP3 slipstreamed is already a tight fit for a CD. If you were to add a large amount of SATA and RAID drivers into it as well i think you would have difficulties burning it to a CD. You might be able to write to a 90 or 99-minute CD but in my experience these won't read in all CD/DVD drives. Never tried burning an XP ISO to a DVD, might be worth a try on an RW disc.

Don't know how you would guess all the popular drivers you would need though, my guess is that's a list that will forever be changing and growing.
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that's just incorrect i'm sorry, plenty of space on there
 
driverpacks.net is what you want, the BASE and Mass Storage.

then use nlite to rebuild the disc
 
swinnie said:
Hi Guys

I'm in the process of making a load of nLite disks for XP Home and XP Pro with Integrated service packs, and it occurred to me that with XP I need to load the SATA drivers for the machine for it to recognise a SATA drive.

I was wondering, if there is a driver pack that I can integrate with the nLite installation? Extra drivers would be an extra bonus...

I fix a lot of computers in the local area, and would like to "simplify" this as much as possible.

Thanks.
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http://www.driverpacks.net

Select the MassStorage driver pack and it should have your SATA drivers. I've used the other driver packs to create a slipstreamed WinXP/SP3 installation, along with using the RyanVM post-SP3 hotfix updates. It grows to just under 2 Gb once I've added further applications like IE7, WMP11, Java, QuickTime, etc.

You can extract the boot image using IsoBuster (use trial version) and use Nero to create a Boot DVD. More instructions at http://unattended.msfn.org. :)

I'd also do all the testing under a virtual machine using VirtualBox or VMWare to save the DVD's. ;)
 
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copy xp to disc C:\XPCD

extract the 'BASE' to C:\Drivers, then follow the instructions for driver packs

then point nlite at C:\XPCD, for now don't do any removals, walk before you run :)
 
bledd. said:
copy xp to disc C:\XPCD

extract the 'BASE' to C:\Drivers, then follow the instructions for driver packs

then point nlite at C:\XPCD, for now don't do any removals, walk before you run :)
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Thanks bledd.

This isn't for my PC, its for when I go and fix other peoples machines, the amount of people who don't keep their recovery disks!!!!
 
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