I am planning to upgrade a machine from ME to XP. (700mhz, 512mb/30G, CDRW, DVD). This is not my main machine. My question is, what do I need to do to make sure the new installation has the required device drivers? Do I need to get the drivers from the original ME CD? Or can I somehow extract them from the current installation and put them on a CD that XP will be able to load them from? If the latter, how does one do that?
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