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Topic: Making a stand alone driver disk for Vista

Hi All
I have been using DriverPacks for several years to slipstream the drivers for my XP install.
Now I have a need to make a SAD for vista drivers. I am not quite sure how to get it to download the Vista drivers, all I see are the drivers for XP.

Thanks in advance
Mark

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Re: Making a stand alone driver disk for Vista

the vista drivers need to be downloaded manually...

I belive that BASE 10.x should work with SAD and Vista Packs

Simply create (or use an existing) SAD folder M1...
I Would Select CPU pack M1 and SAD... This creates folder structure and files...
Extract all the vista packs you desire to \DriverPacks.net\D\ (Just ignore the existing CPU files)

that should work with Vista... the DPINST.exe we use is 2.1 and should be compatible with Vista and Win7.

See how that works for you...

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Re: Making a stand alone driver disk for Vista

OverFlow
Thanks

I am having trouble creating the Vista DriverPack
BASE keeps trying to use my XP setup and will not let me load the Vista drivers.
Any suggestions  I think I am missing something.

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Re: Making a stand alone driver disk for Vista

you CAN'T use DriverPacks BASE to add the Vista drivers... you will have to do that manually.

You can use DriverPacks BASE to create the folder structure and extract the files you need.
(Do this by selecting the smallest DriverPack we offer... CPU and selecting Method 1) (Hit slipstream and EXIT DriverPacks BASE)
It does not matter that the CPU pack is for XP... Vista will simply ignore it.

Once you have created the SAD folder (with only the CPU pack) (and Exited DriverPacks BASE).
Then MANUALLY download and MANUALLY extract the VISTA drivers into the SAD folder you created with BASE.

Test and report.

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Re: Making a stand alone driver disk for Vista

OH I see what your saying now
I'll try that and let you know

Last edited by ExTruckie (2010-07-09 14:12:14)

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Re: Making a stand alone driver disk for Vista

Well I just finished manually coping the driver packs over to the location that I told DPBase to create the SAD pack.
It copied them all into a folder x386. Is this correct?
I just burn this folder to DVD, correct?
I am using a DVD-RW just in case of a fubar smile

Last edited by ExTruckie (2010-07-09 14:22:00)

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Re: Making a stand alone driver disk for Vista

you should Extract them from the *.7z  archives (Packs) Into the existing SAD folder... "Driverpacks.net\D\"

then you should be able to run DP_Inst_tool.cmd on a Vista or Win7 box...

Let me know if you have trouble...

DVD are very slow... but you could do that. I wld use a USB thumb drive or a USB HDD.

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Re: Making a stand alone driver disk for Vista

Success!!!

That was what I needed. The DVD ran fine after removing the x386 folder and reburning the disk.
The drivers loaded to the pc I was working on and fixed the driver problem it was having.
Thanks again

Mark Minnich
MCTS Microsoft Windows Vista: Configuration,
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