Downgraded to windows 7 and forgot the drivers

micthy99 · Jul 30, 2016

Hi,
I recently bought a brand new laptop with windows 10 and decided to down grade to windows 7. However in the whole fuss of trying to do it I forgot to put the drivers on the hardrive and partion the hardrive, so now I have a copy of windows 7 but I can't plug in a usb or connect to the internet to get the drivers. I also wiped the hard drive during the install so I can't go back to windows 10. I'm super worried I just ruined a brand new laptop. Please help!

dragonoar · Jul 30, 2016

Laptops usually come with a DVD drivers.
If you cant find it use another PC to download the drivers from the internet then put them in a flash drive.

micthy99 · Jul 30, 2016

dragonoar :

This one doesn't have a CD drive also flash drives aren't getting registered since i don't have the drivers for those

BadActor · Jul 30, 2016

You'll need to either reinstall Windows 10 or else slipstream the necessary USB drivers into a Windows 7 ISO and create a bootable USB.

azaran · Jul 30, 2016

If your laptop has no DVD drive, and the USB ports aren't working (guessing they're USB 3 as well?) then the easiest thing might be to create a bootable linux USB drive. Find a friend with a working computer, get a USB drive and then using a tool like http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ , load an install of linux on the drive. You can then boot your computer from that flash drive. You can either load a flash drive up with the drivers when you build the Linux drive at your friends, or when you get home you can just boot the computer off the Linux flash drive and go online and download the drivers to your hard drive. Either way you can use that linux drive to transfer the driver files on to your computers hard drive. Then just reboot in to windows and run the drivers from wherever you stored them on your hard drive.

micthy99 · Jul 30, 2016

azaran :

I did try doing that with puppy linux but for some reason, I could not move my mouse or use my keyboard, any specific forms of linux I should use?

azaran · Jul 31, 2016

I usually use Mint, but any version should. Maybe look at a slightly larger Nix distro for better compatibility? Ubuntu don't run very fast on a flash drive but its the most mainstream and may give you better luck.

When you say your mouse or keyboard aren't working, does that mean in just the OS screens or in BIOS as well?

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