How to install drivers if I've lost original CD's?

[Spaghettio]

Apologies if this sounds like a dumb question but I need some advice on reinstalling everything onto a new hard drive.

Long story short, my SSD broke and in the meantime I wanted run everything on my secondary hard drive. Unfortunately I must've accidentally thrown out the CD drivers for all my components and now I'm stuck.

I guess my real question is, other than installing an OS, what else do I need to install and where can I find the software without a CD?

Again, apologies if this sounds dumb. I'll admit I've been neglectful of reading up on this stuff since I built my PC.

 

[cherry blossoms]

Drivers will generally be available from a link available on the hardware manufacturer's website.

What that link will be and where located and what called will vary from manufacturer to manufacturer

 

[The Paladin]

99.9% of drives (excluding ssd's) do not require any drivers that isn't provided by the operating system.
The software provided for SSD in majority are for performance functions.
any "drivers" required for any hardware in general can be found at the manufacturer web site, downloaded usually from the support section and copied to a usb and installed on the missing computer

most fresh install I let Os install, then if needed install driver for the network card, then let windows perform all updates, and then run device manager to see if any drivers need updating at that point.

 

[Spaghettio]

99.9% of drives (excluding ssd's) do not require any drivers that isn't provided by the operating system.
The software provided for SSD in majority are for performance functions.
any "drivers" required for any hardware in general can be found at the manufacturer web site, downloaded usually from the support section and copied to a usb and installed on the missing computer

most fresh install I let Os install, then if needed install driver for the network card, then let windows perform all updates, and then run device manager to see if any drivers need updating at that point.

Hi Paladin, thanks for the quick response. That makes a lot of sense, I just wanted to check I was doing everything correctly. So hopefully, I can just go ahead and install the OS, then let the device manager tell me what else I need to install.

Thanks again