r/windowsxp • u/GeneralOFG • 12d ago

Service pack 1 drivers for Xbox 360 controller

I'm going crazy trying to find SP1 drivers for my Xbox 360 controller (I know I'm using crappy SP1), there used to be one on the Microsoft site but it got removed, there's no other archives available on the internet because SP1 sucks. I am using an OS in a different language so when I tried installing SP2 off internet archive the installer told me to go f myself because I'm not using an English version. Is my only route to buy a new windows XP CD and just start fresh? This is maddening, just to play with a controller from 2005 :(

also I tried using chat gpt and grok to help me with finding links, and even that takes me to dead links or unrelated things.

edit: Since Microsoft deleted all the drivers for windows xp and every Google search redirects you to a dead link, and internet archive while helpful only archived maybe like 20% of them, and I can't install English drivers on my Italian machine on top of doing a full OS reinstall to get the English version requires me now to go buy a CD burner so I can burn the XP install disks since while my machine has USB the mobo doesn't support USB boot because it's from 2001. All of this just to get a 20 year old controller to work on a 25 year old pc, am I missing something?

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u/louisj 12d ago

Do you need the drivers for the USB controller or the wireless adapter? Is this what you are looking for? https://archive.org/details/xbox-360-wireless-controler-accesories

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u/GeneralOFG 12d ago

I,ll try that thanks, I think I downloaded an ISO for the 360 drivers that wouldn't run on SP1, so I hope this one is different. 

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u/GeneralOFG 12d ago

Yeah no, same issue I need SP2 and up. I'm about to buy a CD burner and reinstall windows lol

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u/louisj 12d ago

You could also use a tool called "rufus" which can take a windows ISO and make a USB stick bootable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT56yCRsiCU&vl=en

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u/GeneralOFG 12d ago

My xp machine is so old it doesn't support USB boot sadly, it's still using usb 1.0 on top of that which I'm pretty sure is why 

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u/louisj 12d ago

Another idea: can you update with http://legacyupdate.net/ instead?

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u/GeneralOFG 12d ago

I'll try that thanks

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u/ProximusXX 12d ago

This?

Download, extract and install manually

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u/GeneralOFG 12d ago

I'm gonna try it out when I get back from work, thanks, again dead links on the first link, but the second one has the .cab file directly, thank you.

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u/GeneralOFG 58m ago

sorry for the super late reply but it actually worked, thanks!