Need help installing drivers

[mouze13]

Please excuse any errors in my spelling grammer or formatting. As i was already logged in on my phone so was easier to post from phone rather than remembering google pw. 

 

So to background built my wife a pc with a gigabyte h410m s2h motherboard, a intel 10th gen i5 10400 cpu, 2x8gb leven ddr4 udimm ram, and a 1tb ssd. Build went just fine, all parts working correctly. 

 

Wife wanted to try linux (went with ubuntu). She didnt really like it and wants windows 10 since shes used to it from her el-cheapo laptop. I got fired from my job the day the last part came in so our backup plan of just buy windows wont pann out for now. When i get another job or worst case income tax comes in ill officially purchace a windows key.

 

I got windows to begin booting via making a boot drive out of a usb flash drive but widows doesnt have the drivers for the hardware and wont get very far in the windows install. So what would be the recommended way to get windows to verify the drivers. Can i just boot through ubuntu download the drivers to the ssd and the usb boot drive will still be able to access them or do i need to put them on the flash drive. If i need to put them on the flash drive whats the perfered method to do so.

 

Ps thanks for the help 

[C2dan88]

Try downloading drivers using ubuntu and add them to your win10 usb installer.

[mouze13]

7 minutes ago, C2dan88 said:

Try downloading drivers using ubuntu and add them to your win10 usb installer.

I tried this starting with the intel drivers but i couldnt run the download it keeps saying the was an error. Im not terribly proficient in linux myself so im not entirely sure why its giving the error aside from the assumption that its a windows based file instal and may not be linux compatable by default

 

To note i can use and have been using the old cheap laptop to work files on to the usb drive but i cannot get them to show up win the windows installer 

Edited January 10, 2021 by mouze13

[C2dan88]

8 minutes ago, mouze13 said:

I tried this starting with the intel drivers but i couldnt run the download it keeps saying the was an error

No, dont run downloaded .exe file. You want to move the file to your usb drive.

 

[mouze13]

1 minute ago, C2dan88 said:

No, dont run downloaded .exe file. You want to move the file to your usb drive.

 

Ill try this with the intel drivers. The motherboard drivers i found were all in a zip file and i couldnt get it to work with those

[C2dan88]

For ubuntu to recognise zip files you may need to install zip first (terminal command sudo apt install zip unzip) or use the ubuntu app store.

 

You'll need to extract the contents of the zip to (a new folder on) your usb drive. I don't think the windows installer will recognise .zip files.

[mouze13]

3 minutes ago, C2dan88 said:

For ubuntu to recognise zip files you may need to install zip first (terminal command sudo apt install zip unzip) or use the ubuntu app store.

 

You'll need to extract the contents of the zip to (a new folder on) your usb drive. I don't think the windows installer will recognise .zip files.

i hate fat fingering. logged into LLT forums on the laptop so i didnt have to keep swaping devices and id see replies sooner but marked your comment as the solution like 3 times before i could hit reply XD. 

 

ill try this next. thank you ill update with a new comment after i make the attempt

[mouze13]

4 hours ago, C2dan88 said:

For ubuntu to recognise zip files you may need to install zip first (terminal command sudo apt install zip unzip) or use the ubuntu app store.

 

You'll need to extract the contents of the zip to (a new folder on) your usb drive. I don't think the windows installer will recognise .zip files.

tried this it was a no go. the intel and gigabyte websites are giving me an aplication file to run and that will install the drivers for me but i cant run it on linux and the windows installer doesnt register it or the raw files that are inside the aplication file