No LAN, WiFi, USB drivers on my laptop and no optical drive

[Debsie21]

I have three laptops which needed to have Win7 Pro installed, not the preinstalled 10.
On one laptop I had put a folder on which contained all the necessary drivers and they were retained in a 'windows.old' image which was created during the install. No probs there as I could access the folder and find the missing drivers. However, I did the second laptop but had forgotten to put the drivers in a folder first. Now I have no internet drivers and worse the USB ports only recognise a mouse, not any USB storage devices.
There is no optical drive in the laptop, and regardless of BIOS settings and boot sequence, etc., the laptop will not recognise USB. I have even created a bootable USB flash drive which works in a PC and another laptop, but will not work on this wretched laptop. I have trawled through so many suggestions online, but they seem to always think that you have either an internal optical drive or working usb ports.

 

[nimbah_52]

Take the hard drive out and copy over drivers from another PC I suppose

 

[Edith88]

Check if your card reader works.

I had exactly the same problem with my new Lenovo laptop after installing Windows 7 Ultimate, but I noticed that it did recognize SD cards.
On my PC, I downloaded the drivers directly from their website to my SD card (they were .exe files, I searched by S/N to have the version for my laptop) and then introduced the SD card in the laptop's card reader and installed them that way.