Extracting drivers from windows

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I will soon be installing a new SATA drive but have no driver cds apart from windows XP.

Is it possible to extract drivers for motherboard, sound, and network from windows so i dont need the cds?
 
You could slipstream them into your WIndows installation CD or you could do it the old-fashioned way and download the drivers using another machine after you've installed and carrying them over by hand, assuming your network adapter doesn't work without 3rd-party drivers.
 
I will soon be installing a new SATA drive but have no driver cds apart from windows XP.
If you're simply adding another HDD to a system which is already running you don't need any extra drivers, the OS already has the controller drivers installed.

If you're planning a fresh install then it's a different matter although if you can set the SATA controller to run in Legacy IDE mode (or whatever your BIOS calls it) then again you shouldn't need drivers.
 
I'm not sure about motherboard drivers, but i have sucessfully used a free program called DriverGrabber on a laptop. It extracts drivers and saves the files into folders. Not sure about the motherboard drivers, but it sure worked great for the graphics, sound and network drivers :)
 
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