First you’ll be prompted for the “Windows installation”, which really means your XP install CD.

Next you’ll be prompted on where you want to save the temporary files used during the slip-streaming process.

I just recommend to use a new directory.

Resolving "Setup did not find any hard disk drives" during Windows XP Installation

nLite will copy all the necessary files off the XP installation and into the temporary folder.

When it’s done, you’ll see all the information on which version it is.

Select “Drivers” and then “Bootable ISO”.

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Side note: you could select any of the other options if you’d like.

Hit the next button until you get to the screen for selecting drivers.

Browse to the directory where you extracted the driver files, and then select Open.

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nLite will prompt you to select your driver.

Once you proceed to the next screen, now we can finally finish the process.

Guess nobody has alerted them to get with the program.

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We can still extract the drivers using an program calledWinImage.

Let’s run through a quick example…

Here it’s possible for you to see the Intel SATA controller driver for my HP computer.

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I downloaded and ran the executable, which extracted a file called f6flpy32.exe into a temporary directory.

Don’t bother trying to run this one, because it’ll just prompt you for a floppy drive.

So how to get the drivers out of this file?

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Here’s the list of files that Winimage can handle, which is quite a lot.

Start WinImage and then launch the file, and you should see the contents.

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