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Moving HDD with Windows from one motherboard to another
I plan to add a HDD to my desktop just to install Windows 7 Pro x64 on it then move that hard drive to another computer.
During installation I plan to enter the key for Windows 7 that belongs to the ...
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Installing Windows 7 on RAID 0 created in Intel Rapid Storage Technology
I ordered a ThinkPad T70 from 51nb and upon arrival I fitted 2x Samsung 960 250GB NVMe drives. As per instructions provided to me by 51nb I setup a RAID with the following configuration using Intel ...
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Installing Windows 7 on an HP Stream 11
I am in the process of installing Windows 7 on an HP laptop (Stream 11-y010wm).
I have worked past the usual problems of installation, I have a bootable win7 install usb with usb drivers included. ...
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Getting drivers and their programs from a Windows 7 recovery USB
I have an ASUS Laptop that came with an incorrectly installed recovery partition. After a lot of hassle, I ended up buying new recovery media from the third party ASUS recommended – which was also ...
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How to install IBM Ricoh Infoprint drivers on Windows 7?
How can one successfully install the PostScript 3 drivers for those IBM Ricoh InfoPrint models: 1572, 1812, 1832 1852 on Windows 7 ?
One year ago, I could install the Windows 7 64-bit drivers for the ...
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Cannot Install Win 7 on to Dell Precision 7510 with Lite On CX2 NVMe SSD [duplicate]
So my company orders laptops from Dell, and as per usual ordered one downgraded from Win 10 to Win7. In this case it is a Dell Precision 7510 with an Intel i7 and an SSD Lite On CX2 NVMe 512 GB. The ...
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Fresh install of computer but missing many drivers
I recently acquired an HP Z420 without a hard drive, and so I have to do a fresh install of it. It came with the Windows 7 (64 bit Professional) install CD, which ran fine. But, quite a few of the ...
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Brother MFC Network Scanner Driver Installation
I am not sure on which site to ask this question, so I would be glad if you were to point me in the right direction, in case this is the entirely wrong place.
I am trying to install a Brother MFC-...
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Why did I have to copy usbscan.sys?
When plugging in a Canon CanoScan 9000F, driver installation failed, and so I looked at the log file C:\Windows\inf\setupapi.dev.log: The file usbscan.sys could not be found in C:\Windows\inf.
So I ...
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W7 Home Premium x64 fresh install - won't detect usb flash drive for drivers
just installed W7 on a new build and can't get the drivers installed. I was having issues during the installation - it was hanging on finalizing settings - and did a new install without the ethernet ...
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disable driver signature check while installing windows 7 [duplicate]
is there any possibility where i can disable the default driver signature check while WINDOWS 7 Instalation?.
My problem is that:
i had bought an asus mobo with inbuilt AMD raid card and i want to ...
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Is there a driver downloader for Windows [closed]
Every now and then someone asks me to format his computer and install some windows version. As you all know no drivers are installed by default other than the very basic. I download the wifi driver ...
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installing windows 7 from emergency disk, connecting with the internet
I have just reinstalled windows 7 on a laptop using an old emergency cd. Now this cd does not contain any drivers and as such it can no longer connect to the internet. This is on an dell inspiron 15 ...
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Install / uninstall GPU drivers in Win7 via file explorer?
Situation:
(See also for context: a previous question)
Cannot access Win7 (bootcamp) system via screen, as AMD GPU is bust
Win7 Safe Mode does not help
Can run OSX partition as managed to manually ...
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What's the difference between these two ways of installing a driver?
For installing drivers there are two common ways:
Inserting the driver disk to cd/dvd reader and following the autorun steps to installing it.
Going to Device Manager and updating that driver, and ...
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Intel Rapid Storage Technology (pre-OS) driver installation
My desktop machine is built on Gigabyte GA-Z87-UD3H and Gigabyte provides the latest driver for Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST), which I installed after installing the OS. Same goes for my ...
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Windows 7 Installation asks for AHCI drivers when installed a HDD into the DVD Bay
I'm facing a problem I never faced before: I replaced the DVD Optical Drive of my laptop with a HDD. The HDD is correctly seen into the BIOS but when I'm trying to install Windows 7 the Installation ...
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Installing Win7 on Virtualbox: "Select the driver to be installed" What?
I want to install Windows 7 32bit on Virtualbox (Win7 32bit profile) running on Ubuntu 2013.04 64bit on Lenovo Thinkpad T520.
This usually works fine (and I have installed many Win7 that way with no ...
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ADB can't recognize my Android phone, but Windows 7 does
I'm trying to install a simple .apk, from my Asys U46E running Windows 7, onto my LG Optimus S running Android 2.3.3.
If I have USB debugging off on the phone, then the laptop recognizes it and can ...
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Chipset G31 drivers for Windows 7?
I finally decided to upgrade my quite old system to Windows 7 x64 (from Vista x86) and I have the following question:
The site for my motherboard (ASUS P5KPL AM SE) lists the G31 drivers for Win 7 ...
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I installed Windows, and one of my devices isn't working
So I just installed Windows from a retail disc, everything is running nice and fast. But I noticed something I had not (but I should have) expected:
One of my devices isn't working, but what's worse, ...
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windows 7 installation ... no graphics
I try to install windows 7 from dvd.
I formatted my pc during install, aftwerwards during install, pc reboots and gives me a black screen.
i reset, go to safemode to remove the graphics driver, but ...
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How to attempt driver update for ALL hardware using Windows Update, after Windows 7 installed with no Internet Connection
When you install Windows 7, your install source may not have drivers for your networking hardware.
This means that the install process skips the step where it goes online and looks for all the "best" ...
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DVD/CD driver missing during Windows 7 install
I have an Optiplex GX620 that I'm trying to install Windows 7 Pro 64bit on. I've attempted to do so using a DVD and a flash drive (with the DVD/CD drive completely disconnected. In both cases I get ...
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Installing driver from custom file
I recently began reading about the autorun.inf entries on Microsoft's website.
I read the section about [DeviceInstall]. It seems to give the 'device' being inserted the capability to install its own ...
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Howto install the driver for dell wireless 5505 mobile broadband card on a dell e-series notebook with windows 7?
Where can I find the windows 7 driver for my dell wireless 5505 mobile broadband Express card?
This one is simple. Go to the dell website and download the driver.
How do I install the driver on an ...
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Driver Software, Installed ? Or Still Installing?
How do I know which one of these is true ? One message says the driver is installed, the other one says he's still installing it. Like, Huh ? The little spinning circle just keeps on, like forever.
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New graphics card reported as "standard VGA display adapter"
After installing a new hard drive on my Sony vpccw16fs laptop, I installed Windows 7. I installed drivers from a Driver Pack Solution saved from my old hard drive. My system now only reports a "...
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Installing driver for asus usb-n13 on win7 without disk
The problem is - the ZIP files from asus support site contain a bunch of .sys and .inf files(Tried right click->install them, resulted in error), and sometimes an Asus utility as well(tried installing ...
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Problems with AMD/ATI driver updates
I have a Windows 7 64 bit laptop. I own an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470, when I attempted to update from V12.6 to V12.10 it only installs the HDMI/DP Audio Driver V7.12.0.7708. I have cleared my system ...
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How to disable "Automatically search for drivers and install" in Windows 7
I connected my TI-89 to my Windows 7 system, and apparently it is not plug-and-play.
There was a link to a Windows configuration setting made available that gave the option to automatically search ...
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Windows 7 network, deploy portable devices
We are planning to roll out Windows 7 in a school and are wondering if this can solve some ongoing issues that we have always experienced with XP.
Server 2008 R2
Clients Windows 7 32-bit
The school ...
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Windows 7 asus p5b audio driver
I just upgraded to an Asus P5B running Windows 7 64 bit. For some reason, I can't play any sound.
I tried installing the Asus Audio Driver but it didn't seem to work.
I also get "no audio device ...
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Drivers for Windows 7 installation on USB HDD
Please explain which drivers can be used during Windows 7 installation for USB HDD in the known window with "Load Driver" link when there are the list of partitions and the message
below: W7 cannot ...
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Windows 7 F6 Drivers off a USB Drive
I'm doing a fresh install of Windows 7 and I have an on board software RAID. I "need" to install the drivers via the infamous F6 process. Technically, it should be possible to do so after the OS has ...
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Install graphics card hardware drivers via remote desktop in Windows 7
I come across the same problem over and over. I working on computer that is remote and it is missing graphics card drivers. Just has some default drivers that have limited resolution.
I would like ...
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Installing Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit mentions a missing CD/DVD driver?
When I go to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, I get to the screen to select language, time, and currency, click next and this alert pops up:
Required CD/DVD Drive Device Driver is Missing.
It ...
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Windows 7 installation asks for DVD drivers
I have installed Windows XP on my machine (Company CQ5020NL). Before I was able to do that, I set the SATA controller to IDE in the bios.
Now I want to install Windows 7 upgrade. The DVD boots into ...
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Windows 7 installation - CD\DVD driver issue on laptop
I'm installing Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit from an MSDN download onto a new Dell Studio 1558 laptop.
Right after clicking "Install Now" I get the following message in a window titled Load Driver:
A ...
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Re-enabling prompt for trusting a driver in Windows 7?
I installed some hardware on Windows 7 Pro, and clicked the "Always trust drivers from ..." checkbox before installing. However, now I want to disable this, i.e. I want to be prompted again. I ...
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Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit not finding my SSD, any ideas?
So I am trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on my new SSD (Kingston SNVP325-S2/64GB) and I have unplugged my other drives (for the install only).
The SSD is detected by BIOS, I am running the ...
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What to do when Win 7 x64 installer doesn't recognize HD
A friend of mine is having a huge problem with his new PC. He wants to install Windows 7 x64 but the installer doesn't find his Hard Discs. The discs are connected via SATA on a Asus P6T SE ...
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What are the things i need to do before installing windows 7?
I have a windows XP2 32-bit and i want to install windows 7 but i do not know what are things i should do before installing it. its my fist time to install an OS if ever. I mean, specifically on the ...
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How to add drivers to Windows 7 installation DVD?
How I can bundle newer or missing drivers to Windows 7 DVD?
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Dialog box tells me there's a missing driver when installing 64-bit version of Windows 7
I'm trying to install Windows 7 64-bit on my computer (ASUS P6T Deluxe V2, one 80GB HDD and two 1 TB HDDs). When I'm supposed to select whether I want to Upgrade or do a Custom install, I get a dialog ...
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