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Question

Problems with hard drive image install

Mar 29, 2017 10:43PM PDT

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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Re: image
Mar 29, 2017 11:59PM PDT

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?

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clarification
Mar 30, 2017 12:34AM PDT

As stated, it's an image of my hard drive that I'm trying to move to a larger hard drive. Windows 7 doesn't allow writing such an image to removable media (like a usb drive), so the work-around is naming the usb drive as a shared network drive. If you don't know what that is, I'm not sure you can help. I'm aware, as I stated in my post, that the system repair disc doesn't have the necessary drivers. I'm trying to install the drivers for the network interface card, or nic. The driver files come in zip files when you download them.

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Larger hdd
Mar 30, 2017 8:52AM PDT

If the original hdd still functions then clone it to the larger hdd.

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I agree.
Mar 30, 2017 9:03AM PDT