Formatting Help

tony_important

Well for some reason, my cousin has asked me to format his laptop.
I have an XP CD and Key.
The issue is, I have no disk of drivers. So what do I do before I continue? Should I just go ahead and let windows figure it out? Is there some kind of driver disk I can burn?

As you can tell I've never done this before, but I'm taking it as another computer learning experience.
Any help would be good.

please don't make fun

mastman

your XP cd will probably have most the drivers-- plenty for it to work. You might need to put the ethernet and specific video driver on a cd later, those just seem to be the most specific to computer vendors. The video will work, as those usually support a generic driver language but it won't be in the highest resolution probably.

and any special fancy laptop buttons like play and shit on the keyboard

FightTest

Go to the laptop's vendor support side and grab drivers from there.

For my laptop I get chipset/notebook special system (dell fixes)/cardslot/video/audio/touchpad/wireless drivers.

It will run without most of those (stopped using the giant bloated wireless driver), but my laptop will choke and die on a bootup post windows update patching if I don't install the Dell NSS thing. Chipset/video are probably the most necessary.