Slipstreaming SATA Drivers onto a Windows XP CD
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When Windows XP came out, SATA was cutting edge, and it didn’t detect sata drives during installation, which is a problem if you want windows to install and run from one of those drives. It’s fine if you’ve got a floppy drive as you can supply the drivers that way. However, most modern laptops have done away with them, and if like me, you can’t let go of XP, the easiest way of making those sata hard drives appear is to slipstream (basically insert the driver into the correct location on the windows cd) the drivers and windows will detect the drives automatically.
The good thing is, once you’ve modified your genuine xp disk, you’ve got a personal version that’s very useful for reinstallations on that machine.
Here is how you do it:
1.) Download Nlite from this website: http://www.nliteos.com/download.html
2.) Install it, we all know the drill, point click, point click, done.
3.) Run Nlite, it looks something like this:
3.) Insert your Genuine copy of Windows XP, it will ask you for a location to copy the files to on your hdd (typically 5-600mb of files)
4.) Choose the Tasks “Drivers” & “Create ISO”. Click Next
5.) If you’ve not downloaded the drivers you want to slipstream you should do it now. Normally they come compressed in an archive, you need to extract it, and verify there is a Setup Information File (.inf).
6.) Choose your Driver, if there are multiples, use that option and it will add them all, PNP and Text files can be a bit hit and miss, there is probably a way to choose which one is required, but I don’t make these discs very often…once a year maybe. You’ll have to experiment. You can always try adding the same driver with both options.
7.) Insert a Blank CDR and Choose Direct Burn after the ISO has been created. If you have time I would suggest using the verify option to make sure the data has been written to the disc accurately. Click Burn
8.) Watch the progress bar, or get a Cuppa, it should say “Write Successful” when it’s completed.
9.) Insert your new custom XP CDR and everything should work…hopefully 
Tags: customising, operating systems, windows xp