reformatted pc and now i have no system drivers

WanderMoon

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I have a dell latitude e6410 with serial number ckrhxn1 running windows 7

I am missing all of my drivers and have no network connection to download them from the dell website. I tried downloading the ethernet network driver from the pc I am on now and transfering via a usb flash drive. But when I try and open it on my laptop I receive the message
"The version of this file is not compatible with the version of the windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher."
I also tried looking under system properties and it has no information regarding the drivers.

Well I'm wondering which drivers I need to download and transfer and install first to get the laptop running properly or how I would go about doing this?
 
Solution
minimally you just need the network drivers, the rest should install once you do a windows update.
If your not certain of which network (especially wi-fi) card, put in your service tag and it should list the drivers you need.
The only thing that you need to tell it is the OS you are using, whether its the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows 7

psoohoo

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minimally you just need the network drivers, the rest should install once you do a windows update.
If your not certain of which network (especially wi-fi) card, put in your service tag and it should list the drivers you need.
The only thing that you need to tell it is the OS you are using, whether its the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows 7
 
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WanderMoon

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I am getting them from the dell website. I used my serial number on there and then downloaded the ethernet driver, but when I transfer it, it gives me the same message above. I changed it from 64bit to 32bit version and still does not work. The laptop had x86 program files before I reformatted it.