slipstream drivers into windows xp installation

Andriy — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:55:47 +0000

Although HP, Dell and some other large computer manufacturers make generally decent products, the fact that you need separate drivers for every single thing on the computer is annoying. For some of the Dell and HP computers you can hardly load windows without searching for all sorts of drivers and patches which very from one device to another.

Recently, I needed to re-install Windows XP on one of our work laptops (HP nx9420). All in all it’s a pretty good machine but it was getting a little sluggish. While trying to boot with Windows XP SP3 disk i noticed that the installation wizard was not detecting the hard drive. After little more research I discovered that the reason why windows installation kept missing the hard drive was because in these laptops hard drives are SATA and Windows XP is not meant to boot SATA drives. So here goes my search for ways to revive this poor computer without calling HP.

This is my solution…

nLite software allows to slipstream SATA (and any other drivers) into a fresh Windows XP install CD which will then boot and recognize the SATA hard drive and anything also you may need during the installation process (video drivers perhaps).

Also I’ve discovered that nLite will allow to create unattended installation CD’s and it will combine the Windows XP keys and all sorts of other good stuff into the disk.
Basically all in all a good little program and super easy to use…

Also, for those that need it, here are extracted nx9420 sata drivers:
nx9420 SATA drivers (17)

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