Windows 7 Fresh Install, No internet. No drivers.

[MegaManKane]

Hey,

My dads laptop had a virus, we installed a new fresh version of windows 7, now that is done I quickly realise that I can't access the internet due to there being no drivers installed. The wireless drivers and every other internet driver is not installed.

Im basically stumped and don't know what to do.

I don't even know what drivers to download (on to my pc and transfer them over via USB stick) because I don't know what networking card the laptop has.

Any suggestions or solutions are greatly needed. Thanks in advance great people of TH!!!!

 

[erica_11]

Actually, you can download them from the same computer, with the fresh install...
Under your C drive there is a file with your computer manufacturers name(mine is dell) . So I clicked on the folder and VOILA a whole list of drivers were there. They didn't specify in the file name what each driver was, so I just installed all of them ( or you can choose not to at the start of the driver install when you see it)
But now all is well, no problems.

 

[LeMaple]

Thank dude! You helped me a lot. Hats off, sir!

First of all I'm sorry for my bad english since unfortunatelly this is not my first lenguaje.

After my brain melted trying to figure out the best answer from all forums, I quit and tried to think by myself.
After 1 day of thinking I get into a pretty simple answer... "the usb is detected during windowss installation since I installed it from a pen drive..."

So what I did was:
1.- Load my wireless card driver to my pen drive that has the bootable windows
2.- Restart my laptop in order to boot from windows 7 installation.
3.- Instead of selecting start setup, I went to repair options
4.- Once in repair options select CMD
5.- In CMD identify the current letters of your drives in order to proceed
(this by following commands)
diskpart (enter)
list volumes (enter)
(information is displayed)
exit (enter in order to leave diskpart)
6.- once physical units are identified. just use CMD to perform the copy of the folders you want
xcopy "D:\source_drives" C:\destination_drives /s/c/y
7.- exit windows installation, turn off computer and remove pen drive
8.- Once you start windows 7 again, files must be on your local drive; just install them from there.

In my case I selected the wireless card since with internet connection everything is easier, but you can put any driver you want and copy that to your local drive.

I hope this helps, and please give a thumbs up or a congrats since i spend an entire day trying to solve this

Best regards!