updating drivers to Windows XP from original Vista

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

Hi
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?

angiesluck said:

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

Hi
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...

No, It has no bareing if you d/l with win7 xp os x or linux. You do know you won't get them from winupdate but from the manufactuers page.. aka from Advents site.

The drivers are all .exe files that need to be run to install after you d/l.

Last thing... hopfully they have drivers for xp, as many manufactuers no longer carry them.

If you post up the model, someone can take alook for them.

angiesluck said:

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...

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

Hi guys managed to find someone who had a Windows Vista Home premium 32bit disc so used that on the original faulty vista harddrive and hey presta it has downloaded it all again. Had to go to Realteks website to download and save the network adapter as it was not installed then I used an usb stick to transfer it to sons laptop and so my son can now access the internet...it does show up thou on the other devices that the ethernet controller is not working...but do I need that if he is wireless....also it has a yellow triangle on a USB Mass Storage Device but when I went to update it it said that was the correct one even thou it still displays the yellow triangle......whats that all about.....cheers guys

It a Window XP Advent 7108 laptop that the xp hard drive is from and on hard drive it says Hitachi model HTS541060G9SA00 ...............it is going into the following laptop which originally had a vista harddrive in it.....ADVENT 5421 hope this helps as I have been trying to fix other vista hardrive with a vista installation disc which was seeming to work then we have to reload it again and again...as when I turn off laptop it comes up with Smart Failure Predicted on Hard disk 4...........so dont know whats going on with that particular harddrive so may end up using the XP hard drive instead which is why I need the information on transfering the xp hardrive onto the the original vista laptop....Hope this makes sense

Well I did a quick google search and found this for the wifi drives

http://support.thetechguys.com/layo...}&CatID={161fc822-286b-4b1b-bda6-f5ef031048a7}

ALso check this out... Advent Laptop/Notebook help • Advent Support
Its the Advant support forum.

Herfe is a post doing what you want:
http://www.adventsupport.com/viewtopic.php?t=5204

reput in another harddrive instead as other one was well and truely knackered so to speak so got it up and running fine now...thanks anyway