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Yesterday I bought a new computer and I've been setting it up since this morning. The hard drive came with windows 7 home premium (x64) installed, but I decided to instead install windows 7 ultimate (x64) - this is what I'm currently using. Unfortunately, there were some drivers that were installed that I need in this installation. I only notice because the computer doesn't have the ethernet drivers, so I'm only able to connect to the internet via wireless. There are other drivers missing as well, but I'm not yet seeing the effects.
I still have the Windows.old folder with the previous installation, which has the drivers. Is there any way to copy the necessary ones over? I tried the options for updating driver software through device manager with the path set to System32\drivers of the old installation, but it didn't find anything.
Within the Device Manager try to update from MS instead of local diver copy. – climenole – 2012-10-07T02:01:58.160
It will be faster and better to just download the most up-to-date drivers for the hardware, even if it means downloading it on another computer and copying them over on a flash drive. – Darth Android – 2012-10-07T02:02:09.770
@climenole, I tried that as well. – mowwwalker – 2012-10-07T02:02:50.097
@DarthAndroid, How do I know where to find the drivers? I couldn't find a definitive model number for the ethernet controller. – mowwwalker – 2012-10-07T02:05:08.847
OK Walkerneo: so check my answer. The easiest solution imho. :) – climenole – 2012-10-07T02:09:53.953
@Walkerneo Worst-case, if you view hardware properties in the device manager, go to the
Details
tab and selectMatching device ID
. The value will containVEN_XXXX&DEV_YYYY
where theX
's andY
's are 4-digit hex-codes. Google "ven XXXX dev YYYY
" and look at results to see what brand & model they correspond to. – Darth Android – 2012-10-08T14:20:28.463