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| Thread ID: 138523 | 2014-12-13 01:30:00 | Collecting - Saving - ReInstalling Drivers | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 1390083 | 2014-12-13 22:07:00 | Looks like the drivers could be the 4th one down, on the C drive. Open it and see if all the different driver folders are listed. If not, as mentioned before DriverMax will do it. BUT if you use that, LOOK :stare: When installing, make sure you select the CUSTOM options and untick a couple of "extras" it wants to install. Let it do the Scan for drivers first, Once done, hit the back arrow at the top, then click Driver Backup and Restore, it will scan and offer the drivers, either select the ones you want, or click backup / All Drivers and it will do the rest, once done copy off the zipped file to a external device. Thanks for that Wainui. DriverMax installed without extras and Drivers Saved. 24 were reported to be out of date but that comes as no surprise. I might just copy all I found to a separate folder as well just in case. ;) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1390084 | 2014-12-13 22:14:00 | Have you thought of going to the ASUS site first and checking what drivers you will need? You could download them to a folder, back it up on a USB and use it once you have done the reinstall! Yep, but it's the Mobile Phone Drivers, Printer Drivers, Camera Drivers, T Stick Drivers, Scanner Drivers and so on that bother me the most because I don't have any disks or the peripherals themselves to glean information from. |
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| 1390085 | 2014-12-21 22:40:00 | Well I finally got fed up with this machine and formatted the Drive and reinstalled XP. I then installed supposedly the correct drivers for the model supplied by ASUS. Some installed and some didn’t so I tried pointing to the original drivers that I had backed up. Fixed a couple of problems but still had “driver not installed” messages. So, I hunted through my assortment of disks and found a pack of two “ASUS Recovery Disks”, didn’t say for what models, so I thought nothing to lose, I’d try them. Well, they fixed some things but not all, but the crunch is I now have a 100GB drive that is formatted in FAT32. :confused: I thought 32GB was the limit for FAT32 but no it is definitely reporting that there is only the one drive and 6.27GB is used and 86.8GB available and it’s FAT32. So what is going on here, why is a drive that was NTFS now reporting it is FAT32 and how do I get 86.2GB of spare space all on one partition when it’s FAT32? The whole thing is becoming quite a challenge. :groan: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1390086 | 2014-12-22 00:39:00 | Yep, but it's the Mobile Phone Drivers, Printer Drivers, Camera Drivers, T Stick Drivers, Scanner Drivers and so on that bother me the most because I don't have any disks or the peripherals themselves to glean information from. If you don't have the devices, why do you care about their drivers? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1390087 | 2014-12-22 01:25:00 | If you don't have the devices, why do you care about their drivers? It's not my computer. It belongs to a friend and his family. |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1390088 | 2014-12-22 01:47:00 | Ahh I get it now | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1390089 | 2014-12-22 03:00:00 | If you wanted to convert the Drive to NTFS, you can do it without having to reinstall. You can use the Command convert c: /fs:ntfs Done it a few times without any problems, full instructions : technet.microsoft.com |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1390090 | 2014-12-22 03:58:00 | If you wanted to convert the Drive to NTFS, you can do it without having to reinstall. You can use the Command convert c: /fs:ntfs Done it a few times without any problems, full instructions : technet.microsoft.com Yep, done that myself a few years ago but what I don't get is how I wound up with a 100GB FAT32 C Drive. My understanding is 1: 32GB is the maximum size for a FAT32 format and 2: you can't convert back to FAT32 from a NTFS format. How the hell did this happen. :confused: 6100 |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1390091 | 2014-12-22 05:01:00 | You chose the wrong option during format? But FAT32 is not limited to 32GB. It's just that Windows doesn't like you doing that... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1390092 | 2014-12-25 00:42:00 | Yes there are so many drivers on laptops these days that one does need some help. I just hope I never need to do it. |
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