What image did you put on a USB-drive? How? And why did you have to "name" it a network drive? What is "name" in this case, and what is a network drive?
What driver do you want to install into where and why? If you boot from the system repair disc, it uses its own drivers, and it doesn't anything you installed into Windows.
What's the "nic" involved?
What zip-file?
I'm probably mistakingly using the windows feature to do this. I put the image on a usb drive, but in order to do so, had to name the usb drive a network drive. When I boot up using the system repair disc, the computer won't read the usb drive. From what I've read, the system needs a driver in order to use the nic and read the drive. So, I dl'ed a driver for it from the manufacturer onto another usb drive, but the system won't install it, or I'm doing it incorrectly. I've tried unpacking the zip file onto the usb drive and leaving it as is, but neither seems to work. What specific file do I need to browse to in order to get the driver installed?

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