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Article by: Charles M.
Last Modified: 2020-08-23 04:48:42

Easily find, Install Windows XP drivers - Find nearly all drivers! These steps may also help you find drivers for Windows Vista through to 10.

Steps to Find and Install Windows Drivers Easily

You can find Windows drivers you are looking for easily by following simple steps outlined here. I have used this method in countless PCs in the company I work for. The company has over 400 PC and they keep on purchasing new PCs with every new requirement.. In a nutshell, you will download compressed drivers, extract them into a folder, burn the folder into an ISO image, mount the image on a virtual CD/DVD drive and finally have Windows XP search and install drivers from your virtual driver CD.

Windows XP Driver installation requirements

You will require the following tools:

• Free ISO Creator - will be used to create CD image containing drivers - Nero can also do this.
• Winrar to uncompress .7z files containing drivers.
• Daemon Tools program to create virtual CD drive to read the ISO - with this, you don't need to burn drivers to real CD media.
• A USB key (Flash Disk) - you might need this if your target system does not have LAN/WLAN drivers
• Bittorrent Client to download '.torrent' files.

With these, you are set to start the process.

Windows XP Driver Installation : Step-by-Step instructions

We will split the process into 4 phases. These steps will be carried out in the system you wish to install drivers. If the target system does not have network drivers, you might have to download the files in another system, then transfer the files using your USB Key (flash disk) . Lets start the process!

Phase 1: Download and install Utility programs.

1. Download and install the above required programs. Daemon Tools will require reboot.
2. Create a working folder, in our case c:\XPdrivers

   Phase 2: Download compressed Windows XP drivers, extract them and create ISO image

3. Download drivers corresponding to your system (either x64bit or x84bit) from http://driverpacks.net/driverpacks/latest. Downloaded files will have the extenstion .torrent. See 'How to Download With Torrent Files' you will need to get a bittorrent client to download the drivers.

   
   Only download drivers you need.

4. Uncompress the files using Winrar to c:\XPdrivers.

   
   Extract all Windows XP drivers in one folder e.g: C:\XPdrivers

5. Now, using you favourite CD image (ISO image) creation program, burn the folder c:\XPdrivers in to a CD image and save the resulting .iso file.

   
   Creating .iso image with 'free ISO Creator'

   Phase 3: Mount newly created Windows XP driver CD image and install drivers

   Find detailed instructions on using Daemon Tools here

6. Right-click the Daemon Tools icon near the date & time indicator on the bottom right part of you screen and select drive then mount image

   
   Mount .iso image using Daemon Tools

7. Browse to the location of the CD Image .iso file created in phase 2 above and your CD will appear in "My Computer" as if you inserted a real CD.

   Phase 4: Windows XP driver installation

8. To setup the drivers in the virtual CD, right-click the 'My Computer' icon on the desktop and click on 'Properties', then select 'Device Manager'

   
   Usually a device with missing driver will have a yellow question mark next to it.

9. Right click on one of the devices with yellow question mark next to it and click on 'update driver'. Always start with Chipset for best results.
10. In the following window, select "install the software automatically"

    
    Install software automatically

11. Click on 'next' and Select to search in CD Drive. Windows will start searching for drivers. This process my take some time given the number of drivers in the virtual CD. So be patient.

    
    Drivers finished installing

12. Once driver is find and installed, repeat the same steps on each device with yellow question mark to install all windows Xp drivers you need.

You should be able to find most of the drivers you need. http://www.driverpacks.net has pretty much all the drivers out there. Don't forget to burn Windows XP driver image file to a real CD/DVD for future use. Share this Driver Article

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