slipstream/SATA driver question

schmenge

Since my internet computer got hit with a virus bomb last Friday and I spent a day and a half reinstalling software, I thought I'd finally follow my own advice to others and make a backup. Then I found the article on slipstreaming, and thought it might save me some time, and be a handy thing to have. I tried to follow the article (quite well done, btw), but I hit a snag on the driver repository link when looking for SATA drivers for my disks. The link didn't work. So I did a little digging, and I'm not sure now if I look for the drivers I need on this site, the site of the drive manufacturers, or the site of the motherboard manufacturer. My system (Dell Optiplex GX620) has 2 SATA disks, a Samsung Spinpoint P80 (SP1614C, 160GB, boot drive), and a Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 (HDS728080PLA380, secondary drive). It also has a 500GB IDE drive, but that shouldn't be an issue in this scenario. ANy suggestions/advice? Thanks.


I should mention that I was building the slipstream disk on another computer; should I be doing it on the machine with the SATA drives, and if so, would the drivers needed be found by the software?

Thrax

The link in our article has been corrected: http://icrontic.com/downloads/slipstream_windows_xp_drivers

schmenge

Thanks for the quick response. I'll have a look and try the process one more time.

schmenge

Okay, I've got the file. Now what? How do I know which files I need for my drives?

Thrax

The original article you were following details what drivers apply to which chipsets.

schmenge

Sorry; when I opened the folders extracted from your archive, I first looked in the AMD folder and saw all the subfolders. I looked a little further, and I believe that, if my chipset is Intel, I only need those files in the Intel folder.

Thanks again.

pwainr

Thrax I've Tried the link you provided; it no longer work. could you check and provide working link. Thanks.