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I've an older Toshiba Satellite L25-S121 laptop. The detailed spec sheet of this laptop can be found at https://support.toshiba.com/support/staticContentDetail?contentId=1250428&isFromTOCLink=false
The laptop came with Windows XP Pro 32-bit OS. I bought Windows 10 Home OS key and did a clean install using 1511 (updated Apr 2016) ISO file and the install went through. Windows was able to download missing drivers from Windows Update service and everything installed after couple of reboots. One of the update in the list is for 1803 upgrade which continues to fail.
I downloaded 1709 (updated September 2017), 1803 (updated September 2018) and 1809 (updated December 18) ISO files.
I can do a clean install of 1709 ISO file but at the end, most of my hardware drivers are failing and the worst part is the "Realtek RTL8139 810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC" does not work so Windows cannot connect to the internet and download any missing drivers.
Starting with 1803 and higher (1809), it seems some data storage drivers are removed because doing a clean install throws "irql not less or equal" error before the first screen is shown to ask for language for the install.
It seems that newer versions of Windows 10 ISO files are missing drivers that were included in the older versions of Windows. Can someone tell me if there is a way to either download or export these windows drivers so that I can upgrade to the latest version of windows?
I would like to know, how I can slipstream the storage driver into the latest 1809 Windows ISO file so that it can continue with the install? Please not that I'm not even getting to the point where windows ask for loading a storage driver. This is why I need to know how to slip a storage driver. My reason to suspect a storage driver is related to the fact that installing 1709 gives yellow bangs next to PCI Standard Dual Storage driver in Device Manager. 1709 is the last version I can install but it does not work as most of my hardware is not recognized even though Windows does get installed.
I totally understand that I'm trying to work with an outdated hardware. Since 1511 worked, I was hoping future versions of Windows 10 will continue to work as well and now they don't and I need help.
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The laptop came with Windows XP Pro 32-bit OS. I bought Windows 10 Home OS key and did a clean install using 1511 (updated Apr 2016) ISO file and the install went through. Windows was able to download missing drivers from Windows Update service and everything installed after couple of reboots. One of the update in the list is for 1803 upgrade which continues to fail.
I downloaded 1709 (updated September 2017), 1803 (updated September 2018) and 1809 (updated December 18) ISO files.
I can do a clean install of 1709 ISO file but at the end, most of my hardware drivers are failing and the worst part is the "Realtek RTL8139 810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC" does not work so Windows cannot connect to the internet and download any missing drivers.
Starting with 1803 and higher (1809), it seems some data storage drivers are removed because doing a clean install throws "irql not less or equal" error before the first screen is shown to ask for language for the install.
It seems that newer versions of Windows 10 ISO files are missing drivers that were included in the older versions of Windows. Can someone tell me if there is a way to either download or export these windows drivers so that I can upgrade to the latest version of windows?
I would like to know, how I can slipstream the storage driver into the latest 1809 Windows ISO file so that it can continue with the install? Please not that I'm not even getting to the point where windows ask for loading a storage driver. This is why I need to know how to slip a storage driver. My reason to suspect a storage driver is related to the fact that installing 1709 gives yellow bangs next to PCI Standard Dual Storage driver in Device Manager. 1709 is the last version I can install but it does not work as most of my hardware is not recognized even though Windows does get installed.
I totally understand that I'm trying to work with an outdated hardware. Since 1511 worked, I was hoping future versions of Windows 10 will continue to work as well and now they don't and I need help.
Continue reading...