Locating Drivers On OS Cd's

im looking for the drivers (lan,sound,video) on my operating cd. but im having trouble locating them. on both xp pro and vista. does anybody know where i can find them on the discs. any helps is aprecciated

 

Are drivers on OS CD'???? I thought they were usually in separate in CD' marked drivers n utilities or similar!! No?

 

He/she/it means the ones that come with Windows.

 

ok, wat i have is a custom OS cd made by nlite. the drivers i have on it like the lan driver, video and sound driver r the ones im looking 4, on my vista they r already on the disc. it took me 4ever 2 find them last time and i 4got where i found them and i dont want 2 search 4ever 2 find them again. ok, so when i installed my vista, i never needed 2 find my drivers online cuz they were on the disc. wat im trying 2 figure out is where on the disc they r located

 

First of all, it would help enormously if you would type properly. Have you tried going through the device manager, upgrading the drivers, and searching the CD for drivers from there?

 

ok, first thing... i type like this cuz i dont feel like typing the whole word of wat i cut short. second... im trying 2 find the drivers on my disc so i can take them from my xp pro and vista and save them 2 another cd in case i need 4 another comp. does anybody understand wat im trying 2 do now????

 

If you could make a custom nlited disc, then searching for drivers won't be an issue. Don't waste time here.

 

you dont understand wat im trying, i think u dont know wat you are talking about. ive made my disc, thats obvious, but wat im trying 2 do since my drivers r on my comp, i want 2 take all the drivers for everything from my xp pro and vista discs, 2 put them on another disc so i can see if they work in other comps i cant find the drivers 4. u know, like replacement drivers, its possilbe u know. it works just incase u didnt know.

 

The easiest way would be to forget about retrieving that old drivers. If you burn the discs using Driver Packs then every driver imaginable will be preloaded onto the disc making it universal. It also gives you the option to copy all the drivers onto the hard drive post-install so if you ever change your hardware, the driver will already be there and install itself.

I'm not sure about a direct method as you want... I have no clue where nlite puts the drivers into the disc. Try driverpacks.

And good luck .

 

ok, thank u. i will try that, at least somebody understood wat im trying 2 do

 

I deleted one post. Please remain respectful everybody and stay on topic.

 

hey gregory, thanks dude, thats wat i wanted the whole time. i dont know y anybdy else got it, but hey other guys, thanks 4 the input 2. anyways, greg, u help me with my toshiba a few months ago. just wanted 2 say thanks, i was busy 4 a bit after that and forgot about it, went 2 first posting and see if u responded at all. wrote 2 say thanks abunch