amardeepsingh Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 no spamming intendedearlier i had posted this topic wrongly in unattended windowsbut a member told me to post in this forumso i posting it here nowsorry for double postingfriendsi am want to know somethingi have successfully completed my unattended xp cdthanks to you and all the msfn board members for helpingi have a questionnow i am working on win2k unattendedi want to know that can i replace the driver.cab file of windows 2k Pro with that of windows xp pro (as xp has better support for driver)will windows allow this change or will it be causing any errorplz helpalso if you can give me any more information regarding unattended win2k pro/server then it will be highly appreciable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rendrag Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 reasons this should work:-XP is based (somewhat) on win2k-many drivers (nVidia, Ati for example) distribute setup files that are for both 2k and XP, which would lead me to believe that the drivers in that aspect are interchangeablereasons this will probably blow up in your face:-WHQL signing will probably fail for all your hardware (Bashrat or others may correct me on this if i'm wrong)-though it has better support as you said, it may not be the drivers so much as the OS coding itself, as there are a lot of things XP does way better than 2k (WiFi for one, USB is improved as well).There's nothing stopping you from trying, however i would make sure you backup the 2k driver.cab just in case. My personal opinion is it probably won't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amardeepsingh Posted March 4, 2005 Author Share Posted March 4, 2005 thanks for helping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanVM Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 For this to have an even remote chance of working, you'd also need the updated INF files from i386 (not to mention the random drivers which exist in i386 or in both i386 and driver.cab) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiMoNsAyS Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 i did something similar with win98 and win98se but of course w2k and wxp are totally different.the main problem i can see as ryan said are the .INFs, if drivers are updated then files can be added/deleted/moved from the cabs and of course there will be a version missmatchs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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