You will laugh at me when you read my question. Need help installing old drivers.

kmbeadweaver · Jul 4, 2015

I reinstalled XP on a friend's old Dell computer to clean it up I have rebuilt 2 of our Dell Laptops over and over again (using the disks that came with them), so I pretty much knew I would have to reinstall all the drivers She did not have the original CDs. I pretty much goofed on this one because I copied all the drivers I needed from Dell onto a cd/dvd, but the drive won't read the files. My assumption is that on the factory driver disk they have an installer. Can't connect to the web either - the ethernet driver is on the disk too. Any help out there? Thanks!

Emerald · Jul 4, 2015

do you have a USB stick that you can use to transfer the drivers?

What is the model of the Dell?

kmbeadweaver · Jul 4, 2015

OptiPlex GX520 is the model #. And you are absolutely right about the stick. I have a lot going on right and a million things are going through my mind. That was obviously not one of them. I think it will work perfectly. I do have one and will try it tomorrow. Thanks

SKIPPY PB · Jul 5, 2015

kmbeadweaver :

So you can't see the disc when its in the drive at all? Or it appears blank? Or the files won't open?

Get the network/ethernet/communications driver installed first and you should be able to navigate to the dell website and download the rest of the drivers off there. I did the same thing on a 2005 XPS and also lost the CD. I made my own driver disc and when installing the drivers on fresh OS installations I would copy them from the CD to the desktop then remove the CD. And run the driver's individually from the desktop. The Ethernet driver was the biggest help though.

kmbeadweaver · Jul 5, 2015

Re: Skippy - what you suggested is what I had planned to do - the internet driver first and then download the rest from their site. The cd/dvd drive appears empty so I can't copy any of the files. I am going to try the stick as suggested by the first responder and see if that works. Thanks for your reply - lately nothing is easy. lol

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