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Formatting Help

tony_importanttony_important Registered User regular
edited April 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
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 :p

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  • mastmanmastman Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    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

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  • FightTestFightTest Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    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.

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