Installing XP home on a FAT32 drive

[me]

I plan on formatting and installing XP home on my win98 system. Will XP
provide drivers for the Nforce2 chipset my motherboard has and the drivers
for my ATI Radeon 9800 pro/256meg videocard? Or should I download the
drivers and use them when installing? Thank you.

 

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

Run the Upgrade Advisor. Either borrow a Windows XP CD or download it from
the Internet (it's >50MB AFAIK). That should tell you whether you need to
source newer drivers or not.

HTH

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

May I suggest that you download the latest version of those drivers and then install them after you have installed XP. XP should detect the drivers, initially, and install its own.

Will

 

[Will Denny]

That sounds fine to me. I will download the newest drivers and have them
ready. Should I install the SP-1 disk before or after the new drivers or
does that matter? Thank you.

Hi

I always re-install in this order:

1. XP from CD.
2. SP1 - 'Network' version burnt onto a CD.
3. Security/Critical Updates.
4. Device Drivers from the manufacturer's web site.

Note : XP/SP1 may on the same disk in the case of newer PCs.

Will

 

[Alex Nichol]

That sounds fine to me. I will download the newest drivers and have them
ready. Should I install the SP-1 disk before or after the new drivers or
does that matter? Thank you.

For a video card and motherboard I would get on with them as first
thing. THe system will have provided drivers that will work, but be
decidedly less than optimal. Then make sure you have the firewall on
before connecting to the net, and get the security fix 824146 against
the BLAST worm and its family. Then SP1