One XP CD copying to an image file will take about as long as it takes to smoke one cigarette. Pop open a can of soda or beer or sip from your coffee. * Make sure you have a legitimate CD Key for your XP CD. ISO Recorder will start up and you will be able to make a CD image of it into a data file somewhere on your drive, wherever you chose to hold it for the time being. Chose "Make CD Image" and name it "XP IMAGE". Once CD slows down, roughly after 30 seconds after you popped in it, go to "Computer" on your Desktop, open it and right click on the XP CD. Get your SATA driver files in here (zip file): DO NOT INSTALL THESE! UNZIP it to it's OWN FOLDER on your hard drive and leave it there for now.ĭ: Get Nlite to make a customized XP disk: and install it.ġ. Take all of these things you've just downloaded and put them into one folder named "HP6000 XP Drivers"ī. Download the two links for Intel drivers here. *NOTE* If you do not have NVIDIA video on your DV6000 unit, then you have Intel drivers, which you can find here. All can be found here, including NVIDIA stuff: *NOTE* Get the drivers you can from the link below - such as Coxenant Audio Driver, Microsoft Universal Audio, Yuan TV Tuner driver, Quicklaunch drivers, Webcam, Modem and Ricoh 5-in-1 card reader. THIS IS A ONE TIME THING, SO TAKE YOUR TIME. THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE AS COMPLICATED AS IT LOOKS. I'm running Windows XP Media Center 2005 on this DV6000 laptop (DV6345us to be exact) and it's doing a great job without any problems. There's going to be some downloads and work involved, so please, be patient.
#HP BASE SYSTEM DEVICE DRIVER DV9000 HOW TO#
I'm going to tell you how to do this from the ground up assuming you're currently on Windows Vista.