well i can tell you my netgear is fine and the drivers lol i can also tell you in most cases you cant download the drivers for sata divers to install xp so yeah i cant put xp on it
but i can tell you how i got the net on my vista
i just booted and nuked my whole hdd so nothing was left at all then i reinsalled my vista ands the drives and it all worked fine im even able to play WoW again