Win10 laptop: restore factory settings fails to install drivers

pandaroso

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Nov 28, 2016
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Hello. I have an MSI gaming gaptop that came with win10 preinstalled.

While restoring to factory settings from the preloaded win10 partition the laptop run out of battery and shut down. That bricked it. Then restoring to factoring settings would not work due to an "unexpected" error.

I then restored from a pen drive with a win10 clean ISO. It worked. And then I restored to factory settings from the preloaded win 10 partition (win10 pen drive not inserted), with the idea to maintain preloaded drivers and registration key. It worked. Windows runs. But for one big problem: it did not reinstall the appropiate/factory drivers.

I need to deliver this laptop to the end user prior to setting up Windows. A restore to factory settings without the drivers is a big problem.

Any ideas on what may be going on here?

By the way I have a second identical laptop. I thought a solution would be to clone the hard drives. Would that work? Worried about both laptops having the same Win10 key if I do that.

Thanks in advance!

 

Barty1884

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^^ Yup, just download the drivers (may need a second system to do that, and then move the drivers over on a USB/external HDD).

It sounds like you're maintaining the original image? I would clean install the OS to remove any bloat.
You can skip any registration key request, provided you were legit activated to begin with. Your activation in imbedded in the UEFI & MS's servers. You'll reactivate when you're back online.
 

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