Can some one help me to sort out a problem with setting up drivers for the Windows XP harddrive I have just put in my sons Vista Advent laptop. Reason being is that his Windows Vista harddrive is none usable and I had an old Advent Windows XP laptop and I placed that harddrive into his laptop and it started up great but cannot access internet because of drivers not being same..

I have found the folder I386 which I assume will contain the XP CD-ROM image on the hard disk. I have gone on system properties-device manager and it is highlighting in yellow a question mark on all devices and Ports (COM & LPT)

I dont want to uninstall the drivers and port and then restart laptop to hopefully allow Windows to detect them just incase it knackers up anything...So I want professional advice as to what to do.....So can anyone advise me as soon as possible so my son can have his laptop back working. I do not have the original xp installation disc.

Thanks..

Hi
There is a tool (Drivermax) that will make your your work easy in backing up and restoring/updating drivers at ease. With it you can transfer drivers from one machine to another with a single click. Just try to google and download it to see if it can help in your situation.

can not access the internet from the laptop that the drivers need updating as it says it cannot find ethernet controller, cannot find wlan, video controller (vga compatible) etc... not sure what to do

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Find similar laptop with all drivers and can access internet to download that tool. After getting all things done then update the other laptop.

dont know anyone who has xp anymore....everyone has vista or windows 7......Anyone have any other ideas as how to get to download drivers from another laptop to download onto a cd-rom/dvd .....remembering everyone is using ones with vista or windows 7 and also to do it without damaging them.

Is there anyway I can get a XP cd-rom to access the drivers from? I need help guys....anyone know?

Originally Posted by angiesluck

can not access the internet from the laptop that the drivers need updating as it says it cannot find ethernet controller, cannot find wlan, video controller (vga compatible) etc... not sure what to do

Download the drivers on a USB stick on another system and install them from the stick on the XP system.

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If if you cant find similar laptop to get drivers from then you'll have to download xp sp3 iso and create your own installation disk, otherwise you'll have to upgrade to either vista, seven or ubuntu (which am currently downloading). Or you may try to navigate to your laptop maker's site and see if drivers are there. Good luck.

WHS....I was thinking about that but wont that effect the computers system cos the download may change that computers files thinking its for that computer and I dont want it to do that...

Originally Posted by angiesluck

WHS....I was thinking about that but wont that effect the computers system cos the download may change that computers files thinking its for that computer and I dont want it to do that...

No, as long as you only download them, they have no association to any system. They are just a piece of virgin software.