How to add in sata driver into window xp cd to avoid using floppy disk to load sata driver when install window

Before start:

1. Download nlite software from www.nliteos.com.

2. Prepare a window xp cd.

3. Prepare a blank cd for burning purpose.

4. Create a folder in anywhere of your system (suggest put under c:\) & named it WINXP.

5. Copy all the file (included hidden file) in the window xp cd and put it into WINXP folder.

6. Create a folder in anywhere of your system (suggest put under c:\) & named it SATA DRIVER.

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6. Install Nlite and run it

follow step by step instruction.

choose the folder that you copied the window xp cd’s files.

How to Install Windows From a Flash Drive

The first thing you need to do is download the three files below and save them on your desktop.

PeToUSB.zip

USBprep.zip

BOOTsect.zip

Once you have these downloaded, extract PeToUSB.zip and USBprep.zip separately. Then, copy everything from the PeToUSB folder to the USBprep folder. Now, copy the USBprep folder and place it in C:\

Also, extract BOOTsect.zip and put these files directly in the C:\ directory as well.

Next, you need to put your Windows CD in your optical drive and copy all of the contents from it over to a folder in the C:\ directory. I named mine “XP” so it would be easier to recall later.

Navigate to the USBprep folder in C:\ and double click the usb_prep8.cmd file (yours may or may not have the .cmd extension based on the Windows settings you are using. You can enable file extensions by clicking Tools, Folder Options, View tab, then unticking “Hide extensions for known file types” in the Advanced Settings list).

Clicking usb_prep8.cmd opens up the black and white command screen you see above. Follow the directions on-screen by clicking any button and you will be greeted with another window, PeToUSB. If you have your flash drive plugged in, the program should detect it and list it under the destination drive.

Click “Start” in the PeToUSB window, select “Yes” to continue then again click “Yes” when it asks if you are sure you want to repartition and format the disk. Once complete, click “Ok”.

Leave all of these windows open and go to “Start”, then “Run” and type in “cmd” to bring up the console window.

Type “cd c:\”, without the quotes and press Enter.

Now type “bootsect /nt52 M:”, without the quotes. In this example, “M” represents the letter of my flash drive. Yours will likely be different so be sure to check beforehand (it should be listed beside your device name in PeToUSB - if not there, simply double click My Computer on your desktop and locate the drive letter there.) then press Enter.

The command window will inform you that Bootcode was successfully updated on all target volumes.

Now, close out of the current command window and also close PeToUSB. Doing this will bring up a new set of options in the original command window, as seen above.

Press “1″ then Enter and you will be asked to browse to the folder that you copied Windows to. Select the folder then click “OK”.

Click back on the command window and press “2″ then Enter. You will be asked to enter a drive letter that is not already taken. You may want to check in My Computer to be sure you select a letter that isn’t already being used. In the screenshot above, I selected “O”. Press Enter after selecting your drive letter of choice.

Press “3″ then Enter and you will be asked for the drive letter of your flash drive. This is the same letter that you used earlier in bootsect. For me, that letter is “M”. Input the letter and press Enter.

Finally, press “4″ then Enter. You will be asked if you want to proceed with the format. Type “Y” then press Enter.

The system will pause a moment while the format takes place. Then you will be asked to press any key to continue… do so. This starts the first phase of the process which will take a few minutes.

Once again, you will be prompted to press any key to continue… do so. Another dialog box will pop up, asking you if you want to start the file copy. Click “Yes”. The command window will again activate and start copying files to the flash drive which will take a few minutes.

After a bit, you will be asked if you would like USB-stick to be Preferred Boot Drive. Click “Yes”.

Finally, a dialog box asks if you would like to unmount the Virtual Drive. Click “Yes”.

That’s it, you are done! You can close the command window and any other relevant windows that may still be open.

But, we are not done. Now comes time to install XP, which as you will find out, is a bit of a different process when using a flash drive. Continue ahead as we walk through this procedure.

Installing XP

Once you have your flash drive loaded with XP, it’s time to install it. As mentioned earlier, you need to be sure that your computer supports booting from a USB drive.
Plug in the flash drive then turn on the computer and go into the BIOS (usually by pressing the Delete key at the POST screen). In the BIOS, you will need to set the flash drive as the first boot device, usually called something like “USB Hard Drive”. Save and exit to reboot the system.

You will be greeted with the screen you see above which gives you two options: TXT mode or GUI mode. Select TXT mode for now.
Setup will load as normal, but there is one catch that you need to be aware of here. If you are formatting your hard drive and creating a new partition, you will need to turn off the computer immediately after the partition has been formatted (before Windows starts copying files over). Turn the system back on, boot back into TXT mode then direct Windows to leave the current file system intact. This is done because the flash drive can’t copy to the new partition unless the computer is restarted and the flash drive is allowed to recognize the new partition. Strange, yes, but that’s just how it works. If you aren’t creating a new partition, then just carry on as usual.

Once all of the setup files are loaded, the computer will reboot. This time, select GUI mode and continue your installation as you normally would with a CD. It is important that you don’t remove the flash drive until you are totally finished with the installation or you may corrupt the install and have to start over again.

This guide should allow you to quickly and easily install Windows XP on a computer without an optical drive such as a netbook. You can, however, use this method on any computer to speed up the installation process, as it is much faster to install from a flash drive versus an optical drive.

How to remove a driver permanently

General

Sometimes you get into a situation where you want to remove or replace a driver, but Windows remembers the driver and keeps reinstalling it.

If this happens, you have to erase that part of Windows’ memory. You need to delete the relevant .inf file from %windir%\inf. It will be called oemX.inf. There will also be an oemX.pnf.

In the following example we will use a Netgear driver named WG311T. Of course you have to substitute the name of your problem driver when applying this solution.

You will first have to identify the inf file that contains the information about the problem driver, then delete that file.

Windows Vista

In device manager, double-click your problematic device (WG311T).

Go to the Details tab. Where it says “Property:” (combobox), change from “Device Description” to “Inf name”. This tells you which .inf file is used for installing the driver.

Go to cmd prompt again, and to: %windir%\inf

Delete that file and its corresponding .pnf file. Job done.

If you have UAC (User Access Control) enabled, you will probably need to ‘Run as Administrator’ your Command Prompt.

Windows XP

Enter the following commands:

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cmd
cd %windir%\inf
for %a in (oem*.inf) do find /i “WG311T” %a >>out.txt
notepad out.txt

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Where I have put “WG311T” above in the for %a line, you need to make sure it’s written just like the device name is in device manager. Capitals don’t
matter (because of the /i (ignore case), but if it’s “WG-311-T” then you need to write it like that, with the dashes.

This will open up a notepad windows showing you the results of a text search through oem*.inf. Look through out.txt to see which of those oemX.inf files
is the netgear one. The stuff might not mean much to you, but it’ll point at which of those inf files describes your Netgear card. You get a header (filename) like ——–OEM6.INF and following that will be the matching text, so you will be looking for the filename (——OEMX.INF) just above any netgear stuff that is shown.

Remember the inf file name. In this example we will assume it is: oem12.inf

Type:

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attrib -h -r -s oem12.*
del oem12.*

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What you are doing here is deleting the file that we found was the right one, and also its .PNF counterpart. On XP, .pnf files always seem to be read-only, so we have to use attrib to remove that read-only attribute. On my new Vista machine it looks like the .pnf files are not read-only, but some of the .inf files are, which I have never come across pre-Vista, so the above commands are going to remove read-only & system & hidden attributes on both .inf & .pnf just to be sure.

After doing the above, uninstall the item from device manager and it should no longer find the already installed driver.

Active Desktop Recovery – Object doesn’t support this action

Do you face a problem on my desktop for the longest time and I finally decided to look into it yesterday. My desktop had this white background and it said Active Desktop Recovery. Also, there was a button that said Restore my Active Desktop.

Here’s FIX #1

1. Open an explorer window (open My Computer for example)
2. Tools
3. Folder Options
4. View
5. Uncheck Hide protected operating system files
6. Now do a search for desktop.htt…it should be on your C: normally
7. Delete any desktop.htt files you find (there could be more than one depending on how many user profiles are on the machine)  They should be located in Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
8. Close all windows you have open
9. Now reboot your PC..Windows will recreate desktop.htt for you and it should work!

oops…I almost forgot….go ahead a place a check back in Hide protected operating system files

If the above doesn’t work, try FIX #2!

1. Go to Run, type regedit and hit enter
2. Go here HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\Components
3. Select the value DeskHtmlVersion
4. Select the Decimal radial button
5. Change the value of 272 to 0
6. Most of the time it might take a few seconds for your background to appear and other times…you might need to restart your computer.