IIIIIIIIII Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Hey Everyone -I did some browsing around, but alot of the info Im reading is just confusing me as I am not sure if it applies to what I am doing or not so I figured its best to just ask. forgive me if this has been answered somewhere else!I am trying to make a bootable .iso for XP home - which I successfully did, however the Dell Inspiron Im booting it onto has an SATA HD so I needed the drivers.A friend suggested I use Nlite, and things were going smoothly, I got all the drivers, but when I went to select them I realized it was looking for .inf files, but I have .exe'sI extracted them, but it just made a huge mess... can anyone help me out? Here is the list of drivers I was installinghttp://www.laptops-drivers.com/dell-laptop...ding-vista.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando 1 Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 @ IIIIIIIIII:Welcome at MSFN Forums!Which EXE file did you try to integrate? Where did you get it?RegardsFernando Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IIIIIIIIII Posted January 5, 2010 Author Share Posted January 5, 2010 (edited) @ IIIIIIIIII:Welcome at MSFN Forums!Which EXE file did you try to integrate? Where did you get it?RegardsFernandoHey fernando!! Thanks!!All of the drivers are .exe's and they are all from the site I posted the link to.I guess I can create .inf's to autorun each of the drivers, but i think theyd have to be in the same DIRMost important is to get the SATA driver booting when I start the windows install!!!! Edited January 5, 2010 by IIIIIIIIII Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando 1 Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 There is no need to integrate all drivers. The only driver you have to integrate is the AHCI driver, because I suspect, that your SATA hdd is running in AHCI Mode.Do you know the chipset and the Southbridge of your notebook? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 The drivers you should need are listed in that article. However, they ship from dell as self-extracting .exe files - you can bypass Dell's installer by using a tool like WinRar or 7-zip to extract the files from the .exe itself, and then use those extracted files in nLite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando 1 Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 The drivers you should need are listed in that article. However, they ship from dell as self-extracting .exe files - you can bypass Dell's installer by using a tool like WinRar or 7-zip to extract the files from the .exe itself, and then use those extracted files in nLite.I have tried to unzip the EXE file by using 7-zip, but that didn't work.@ IIIIIIIIII:It seems, that your notebook has an Intel Southbridge and the SATA hdd is connected to an Intel SATA AHCI Controller (maybe ICH7M or ICH8M).If I am right, you will find the appropriate SATA driver and a guide regarding the integration within the first post of >this< thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 I have tried to unzip the EXE file by using 7-zip, but that didn't work.Worked for me using WinRar. I assumed 7-zip would work (has in the past), but I guess not on those. WinRar worked fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Why not just run the self extractor ? (sure I'm missing something here) Directory of C:\dell\drivers\Matrix06/01/2010 00:33 <DIR> .06/01/2010 00:33 <DIR> ..06/01/2010 00:33 0 dir.txt11/04/2007 01:36 11.352 iaahci.cat06/04/2007 15:29 8.116 iaahci.inf11/04/2007 01:41 11.156 iastor.cat06/04/2007 15:31 7.678 iastor.inf21/03/2007 12:58 304.920 iastor.sys11/04/2007 15:26 11.321 license.txt21/03/2007 12:09 45.465 readme.txt21/03/2007 11:59 4.243 txtsetup.oem06/09/2007 04:28 489 Version.txtTitle: Serial ATA: Intel Matrix Storage Manager - Notebooks DriverVersion : A00OEM name : IntelOEM Version: xp-vista_7.5.0.1017Computers : Inspiron: 1525; Vostro Notebook: 1010; XPS: M1530OSes : Windows Vista 32-bit Business,Windows Vista 32-bit Home Basic,Windows Vista 32-bit Home Premium,Windows Vista 32-bit Ultimate,Windows XP Home Edition,Windows XP Media Center Edition,Windows XP ProfessionalLanguages : EnglishCreated : Wednesday, November 07, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando 1 Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Cluberti und Ponch may be right and the EXE files with the Dell drivers can be unzipped, butthese drivers are not easy to be downloaded (when I use the "Download" link at Dell's homepage, I just get the Dell Download Manager) andthe Intel Matrix Storage Manager version offered by Dell is dated 12/12/2007 and obviously outdated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 @Fernando - FYI Dell has an "option" of using Direct Download or Download Manager (ya gotta look real close). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now