Bootcamp Firewire Drivers

Hi All,
I've recently installed a new HDD and snow leopard on my macbook pro. I'd been using bootcamp previously with no problems, however now when i run bootcamp setup [ xp sp3 installed ], it does not seem to install firewire drivers - theres a ? over the firewire controller in device manager and 2 usb devices are listed as unknown. Has anyone come across this before? have done a bit of searching but haven't found anything so far...

pan_down wrote:
"I'd been using bootcamp previously with no problems, however now when i run >bootcamp setup [ xp sp3 installed ]..."
I don't understand what this means. Have you tried inserting your Snow install DVD after starting up to Windows so that all provided drivers are installed?
, it does not seem to install firewire drivers - theres a ? over the firewire >controller in device manager and 2 usb devices are listed as unknown.
After doing what I mentioned above, if no joy, then, use the ?-marked item(s) (right click, double click, or whatever) to search for a newer/better driver for the device or to reinstall its present driver.

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