Question regarding a new drive

[the007machine]

Hello All:

I made my first slipstream today using XP Home Edition with SP2. I would like to use this disc to create a new installation of Windows for my brother. He lives in California and I am in North Carolina. His Dell has a 30 gig drive and is currently 'out of available space'. He purchased a new 160 gig drive and is shipping to me.

I know how to attach it to my system as a slave drive and would like to know how will the drive work when I send back to him without having the proper chipset drivers? Can I just add them to the disc and will the drive recognize his system when it is plugged in?

Thank you for any help at all.