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Finding SATA driver for Win XP dual boot - Intel 5 series/3400 chipset
I'm trying to install Windows XP SP3 as a dual boot on my Windows 7 laptop (Asus U33JC).
I'm following this tutorial:
Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP
The computer has a SATA hard drive (not supported by XP), so I need to create a Win XP setup disk with the correct drivers "slipstreamed". To do that I am following this:
SATA Drivers - Slipstream into Windows XP CD
I'm having no problems with the technical aspects, but I'm finding it impossible to find and identify the correct SATA driver. The chipset is an Intel 5 Series / 3400.
You'd think this would be trivial but I've spent hours on it! All I can find on the Intel or Asus websites are automatic utilities to identify and install drivers on systems with operating systems already installed, not the drivers themselves or any information about them. I did download one of those exe files and used 7-Zip to extract all of the drivers, but there is no way to figure out which is the correct one to use for XP and for that particular chipset. I thought I'd figured it out by a process of elimination by searching the .inf files, but it didn't work so I must have got the wrong driver. Googling just brings up hoards of fake driver download sites that link to what I presume are malware installations ("drivermax", "driveridentifier" etc).
I find it completely incredible that it is so difficult to obtain the driver or even information about what the correct one is!