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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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