Win7 - NO drivers available?

After a hard drive crash, I installed a new hard drive in my somewhat older laptop (Acer aspire E5). Since nothing else is there at the moment, I installed an old Win7 version that was still lying around here (which is also not tragic, it should serve as a pure "music project computer" from now on, largely separated from the network).

After the installation, NO drivers are installed and can't be found either. By none I unfortunately mean the USB drivers and all network drivers. So I can neither pull something over from the network nor from the stationary computer via USB.

The CD-ROM works… Unfortunately, the stationary computer doesn't have one, so burning a CD quickly is no problem either:-(

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but does anyone have any idea how I can at least get the network drivers on it to download the others? Shouldn't there Really be at least one old basic driver with Windows?

Here you can get all the drivers for your device from the manufacturer:

https://www.acer.com/...nt/drivers

I know the side. Without a (W) LAN driver or some other way of getting them onto the laptop, it is unfortunately of no use to me.

Don't know, maybe I'm missing something, but I would say that you have to buy or borrow an adapter and drag the drivers from the main computer to the hard drive of the laptop via USB and then use them as they are. Do you just have to find the correct driver manually.

USB doesn't work either. He even doesn't find any drivers for that (just added a picture above).

I say yes, pull it from the main computer directly to the hard drive of the laptop via USB adapter.

PS: The GM looks really bad…

This is good for a lot - you just have to use another PC to download the drivers and burn them to a CD

You can of course also insert the Windows 7 CD, start the device manager and select "Update driver" and "from CD" under "Network card"

I tried the latter. That's one of the things that surprises me the most: It doesn't find anything, even on the CD. Windows actually comes with a basic set of outdated drivers that can then be updated.

In fact, it is exactly the Windows version that ran on it before.

Oh, you mean the record from the laptop directly to the other computer? That could work, thanks.

Then something went wrong with the Win installation - Win7 usually always installs all standard drivers

Format the hard disk and reinstall it in an emergency

I'll try it. I have nothing to lose: -D

Have you tried USB really not working?

USB should always work, it even works without Windows.
If you want to install Windows 10, you can use this by setting up a boot stick on your stand PC, the installer offers a function for this.
But test beforehand with e.g. Linux whether it works at all, otherwise you will have wasted the money.

It could also be a hardware problem, then you can do what you want.

I don't have any other explanation either, Windows has been supplying generic drivers for tens of years, which all manufacturers adhere to.
Perhaps the PC also needs a BIOS update, but I've never seen it have such far-reaching effects.

I don't have any other explanation either.

It is also weird that your driver folder on the hard disk is not readable after you have moved it. I don't know why that could be either, I would speculate that it is a problem with the filesystem. In this case, the best thing would be to completely reformat NTFS over it and reinstall Windows, but make sure to remove all other data carriers beforehand.

Will Georg join me in organizing a Linux Live CD somehow, with friends or, I don't know, aren't the Linux booklets with DVD even available in the supermarket? With Linux, more drivers are often integrated than with Windows, if necessary also connect a network cable to the router (the Fritzbox), that has to work under Linux, and from that level you could start downloading the drivers for Win 7 and transfer them to the hard drive transfer.

Sometimes I downloaded drivers for old laptops with my cell phone, put the memory card in a card reader, everything worked in the past.

Thank you. What actually worked: Drag Win10 onto the USB stick on the desktop computer and then boot the laptop from there.

Why the USB connection went when booting, but when Windows started but there were no drivers for it, I probably don't have to understand ;-)

In any case, it worked now.

I still have a probably stupid question: What do you need a win10 key for? It also seems to work without it.

Then at least it wasn't a hardware problem.
I don't know what went wrong in Windows, but you mustn't forget that Windows 7 has long since stopped being developed.

And your installation without a key worked because a valid key was already stored in the BIOS. So you already have the key, Windows just doesn't ask you for it because it has already found the key.