DriverPack Solution software, based on a real life example and a possible scenario for your computer.
Offline driver installation is a great choice and advantage if you:
And my story goes as follows: I got a computer that has operating system restored from the backup image of another computer (that has a different hardware, as well), but without universal restore technique used. Surprisingly, the operating system managed to boot without BSOD, and in this scenario driver issues are to be expected:
find more about Device Manager and drivers’ state in this article regarding hardware identification. If you look at the picture you should see somewhat difficult situation: besides others, I am missing drivers for my Ethernet controller and USB controller. That means that I can’t use my USB flash drive to install missing drivers with DriverPack Solution and I have no Internet access to download drivers from the Internet. How to deal with this situation? Well, somehow we need to copy DriverPack Solution from the USB flash drive (in my case) onto the hard disk or SSD on the computer. Therefore, I decided to boot Linux Xubuntu Live CD (any other Live or Rescue CD will do the job) and copy DriverPack Solution files to the D: partition
Boot your Windows once again and open D: partition (or a location where you copied DriverPack Solution) and installed it easily.
Offline driver installation is a great choice and advantage if you:
- have just installed your Windows operating system, and you don’t want to waste your time on identification of your computer’s hardware, downloading and installing every missing driver separately,
- have reinstalled your Windows operating system, but you didn’t back up drivers and basic applications from the previous Windows installation,
- have a computer that has no connection to the Internet, or that have no Ethernet drivers installed (and therefore no Internet connection),
- created a backup image of one computer and restored that image to another computer (universal restore or bare metal restore),
- have any other problems regarding driver installation –> try DriverPack Solution.
And my story goes as follows: I got a computer that has operating system restored from the backup image of another computer (that has a different hardware, as well), but without universal restore technique used. Surprisingly, the operating system managed to boot without BSOD, and in this scenario driver issues are to be expected:
find more about Device Manager and drivers’ state in this article regarding hardware identification. If you look at the picture you should see somewhat difficult situation: besides others, I am missing drivers for my Ethernet controller and USB controller. That means that I can’t use my USB flash drive to install missing drivers with DriverPack Solution and I have no Internet access to download drivers from the Internet. How to deal with this situation? Well, somehow we need to copy DriverPack Solution from the USB flash drive (in my case) onto the hard disk or SSD on the computer. Therefore, I decided to boot Linux Xubuntu Live CD (any other Live or Rescue CD will do the job) and copy DriverPack Solution files to the D: partition
Boot your Windows once again and open D: partition (or a location where you copied DriverPack Solution) and installed it easily.
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