"The system cannot find the file specified."

[LaGg3r34]

Hello. I cannot install my NIC drivers , it says " The system cannot find the file specified." I have no idea what to do. Any ideas from anyone would be greatly appreaciated!
Thanks.

Also.. barey any .inf file works it seems only the ones that have been here since i installed windows complete. any other driver like GPU/CHIPSET etc says "the system cannot find the file specified."

 

[t53186]

download a new copy of the nic driver from the manufacturer

 

[LaGg3r34]

i tried that . didn't work :/

 

[Tom Tancredi]

Go to the maker of the NIC (motherboard? is this a seperate card? a USB NIC adapter? no specifics here???) and download for YOUR operating system (this Linux? Windows 7? W10? ) onto a thumb drive then plug in thumb drive and run it from there for your NIC.

 

[LaGg3r34]

TP-LINK TG-3269 Gigabit PCI Network Adapter, but the thing is it only has win8 64 , i have win10 64 , but that shouldn't be a problem. Since i had my old drivers w7.

 

[LaGg3r34]

And doing that had no change :/

 

[Tom Tancredi]

Then TP-LInk is telling you that it is NOT COMPATIBLE with W10 when they do NOT provide drivers for it. You will need a different NIC that is W10 compatible.

 

[LaGg3r34]

it's not that , ihad w7 drivers for it before and it worked fine..

 

[LaGg3r34]

Like i said before, it does this on ANY driver i try to install.

 

[Tom Tancredi]

Try iOBit Driver Booster to look up your drivers and see if there is another alternative. Other than removing the device then reinstalling it (It may be using the GENERIC driver from Microsoft and when you introduce a W7/8 driver which is NOT compatible with W10, then that is when you have a issue).

 

[LaGg3r34]

i've tried every sort of driver thing , and how can i use driver booster if i don't have internet /: i was thinking that maybe i can use some free vpn that would give me ethernet for me to get drivers with driver booster tho , tunnelbear doesnt work. i'll go look for smth.

 

[LaGg3r34]

Cant even install VPN's still says the system cannot find the file specified.

 

[Tom Tancredi]

As I said before, the card is NOT per the maker Okay to work with W10 (as no drivers are for it). You need to use another NIC, or better yet a simple USB Wifi Adapter (they are only $10-20) and use that to get to the router wirelessly. Yes I understand the W7 at one time drivers somehow worked, so unless your going to WIPE Windows and do a clean install from scratch with a device with no W10 drivers, your still will be in the same boat.

 

[LaGg3r34]

Listen.
I can't install ANY driver no matter what version/os it is for , i can't even install a vpn like come on . And it worked before so this is not the issue here , btw on the box there is a warning/disclaimer "This software SHOULD work on newer versions of windows."

I even had my dad try this on a windows 10 64 bit version using the win8 64 bit drivers , worked fine.

 

[LaGg3r34]

I just found out that before the driver install completes/fails , the file in windows/system32/driverstore , gets deleted , no wonder it can't finish. Any way to fix this?

 

[LaGg3r34]

Reinstalled windows.