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Downloading Drivers Without Internet or the Disk

Rylie59
By Rylie59
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Here's my story. I bought a new SSD and did a fresh install of Windows 7 on it. Everything went fine, but I can't get internet. My motherboard doesn't have onboard wifi, and the wireless adapter is a TP- LINK Archer T4U. I lost the driver disk, and obviously can't use the internet to download it. Booting with another hard drive with the driver installed allowed me to get onto the internet. I tried to download the driver off the TP LINK website onto a usb. Then I tried to move that driver onto the SSD. The driver still wasn't found. I'm now stumped on how to get the drivers onto the SSD. Does anyone have any ideas?

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Can't you just plug in an ethernet cable?

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 Booting with another hard drive with the driver installed allowed me to get onto the internet. I tried to download the driver off the TP LINK website onto a usb. Then I tried to move that driver onto the SSD. The driver still wasn't found. I'm now stumped on how to get the drivers onto the SSD. Does anyone have any ideas?

You did it wrong.  You need to go into device manager, find the wireless adapter, right click, select "update driver software"  then "browse my computer for driver software" then you need to point it to the location of the driver file you put onto the SSD.  It will then install that driver.  

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You did it wrong.  You need to go into device manager, find the wireless adapter, right click, select "update driver software"  then "browse my computer for driver software" then you need to point it to the location of the driver file you put onto the SSD.  It will then install that driver.  

I'll try it

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