No more optical drives, please help!

[Masaru83]

Hi, i am starting this thread because i want to format and reinstall my windows and drivers. The problem is with my new case i do not have a optical drive. I went on my motherboards drivers webpage and copied my drivers onto a flash drive. Now, i have two questions, one is, when i boot into windows without installing any motherboard drivers can i web browse? second if i need drivers, what drivers do i need to web browse. I use a ethernet connection, so i am guessing that the LAN drivers are the ones i want. I do not need any other drivers do i?

 

[Faike]

If you are using a Windows 10 installation USB drive then it will automatically detect and update drivers.

 

[USAFRet]

It will detect your hardware, and probably install the relevant drivers. Not 100%, but probably.
Absolutely have at least your LAN driver ready to install if it doesn't.

 

[Faike]

It will detect your hardware, and probably install the relevant drivers. Not 100%, but probably.
Absolutely have at least your LAN driver ready to install if it doesn't.

Upvoted because you know, just incase, but I've installed soooo much windows 10 on older pc's and never out of maybe 50 installations using a USB drive that I was missing the LAN driver. Mostly incompatibility issues with laptop drivers (the graphics card) when updating from like Vista or Windows XP (yes it even figured out my windows XP drivers haha).

 

[rgd1101]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from Masaru83 : "No optical drives"

Hi, i am starting this thread because i want to format and reinstall my windows and drivers. The problem is with my new case i do not have a optical drive. I went on my motherboards drivers webpage and copied my drivers onto a flash drive. Now, i have two questions, one is, when i boot into windows without installing any motherboard drivers can i web browse? second if i need drivers, what drivers do i need to web browse. I use a ethernet connection, so i am guessing that the LAN drivers are the ones i want. I do not need any other drivers do i?

Are you reinstalling Windows 10?
You may get lucky and already have generic ethernet drivers when you install the OS but I would put all of them on a USB just to be sure. Once you get the system online you can just browse and download the rest.

Are you reinstalling Windows 10?
You may get lucky and already have generic ethernet drivers when you install the OS but I would put all of them on a USB just to be sure. Once you get the system online you can just browse and download the rest.

Yes it is a windows 10 64 bit operating system. I formated so many times in my life but i can not remember if i needed the drivers first before i can web browse 🙁. So the LAN ethernet drivers allow me to use my ethernet connection? I have a funny set up in my basement i have a range extender down here catching a wifi signal from upstairs, and a ethernet cable is going from my range extender to my pc, so it is using my ethernet. I should really get a wi fi adapter, i had one but it does not work anymore.

 

[Faike]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from Masaru83 : "No optical drives"

Hi, i am starting this thread because i want to format and reinstall my windows and drivers. The problem is with my new case i do not have a optical drive. I went on my motherboards drivers webpage and copied my drivers onto a flash drive. Now, i have two questions, one is, when i boot into windows without installing any motherboard drivers can i web browse? second if i need drivers, what drivers do i need to web browse. I use a ethernet connection, so i am guessing that the LAN drivers are the ones i want. I do not need any other drivers do i?

Are you reinstalling Windows 10?
You may get lucky and already have generic ethernet drivers when you install the OS but I would put all of them on a USB just to be sure. Once you get the system online you can just browse and download the rest.

Are you reinstalling Windows 10?
You may get lucky and already have generic ethernet drivers when you install the OS but I would put all of them on a USB just to be sure. Once you get the system online you can just browse and download the rest.

Yes it is a windows 10 64 bit operating system. I formated so many times in my life but i can not remember if i needed the drivers first before i can web browse 🙁. So the LAN ethernet drivers allow me to use my ethernet connection? I have a funny set up in my basement i have a range extender down here catching a wifi signal from upstairs, and a ethernet cable is going from my range extender to my pc, so it is using my ethernet. I should really get a wi fi adapter, i had one but it does not work anymore.

You can install the drivers on a USB drive to be safe but Windows 10 is pretty good at finding drives by itself when installation takes place. I've never had issues with it figuring out Lan drivers and I've updated tons of systems that were very old and even I was surprised at it's ability to figure out what drivers you actually need.
Simple answer is: If you're worried just download the driver on a USB drive, not a big deal. but it will probably detect the driver without you doing anything automatically.