Exactly what HP notebook do you have?
HP Software and Driver Downloads for HP Printers, Laptops, Desktops and More | HP® Support there you can find your model and find all its "drivers". Download the wired LAN driver and the wireless driver. So you can access the internet and download/install the remaining stuff. But better wait a few days and let windows install the drivers automatically. Of course you need a network connection and network drivers to do so.
What is the problem?
Aimee,
One thing I forgot to mention is if you have to do an image restore, you will need to use the boot cd.
Make sure you go into BIOS and set the dvd drive with the cd as the boot device.
Paul
Also, with an Image Restore, if you get a virus, you won't have to go through all the Malware removal steps- just do the Restore and you're back to a clean image.
Just for clarification, don't ALL drivers live in C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository? These include all currently in-use as well as all other unused drivers which came from MS as part of the Win7 install, along with all additional drivers you caused to be installed either automatically when "new hardware detected" occurred or manually when running a SETUP.EXE provided by a hardware vendor.
This folder is generally over 4GB in size, and of course has probably thousands of INF files which would need to be examined in order to find the correct one for some new hardware install, but as I understand it ALL drivers live here (again, either via original Win7 install or subsequently as you add new hardware and install vendor-provided drivers) specifically for historical purposes and also possible re-use should it be needed to (e.g. if you UNINSTALL the hardware, and then plug it in again so that Windows goes through its "new hardware detected" logic and attempts to find the correct existing driver in \DriverStore\FileRepository).
So while this might not be the world's most efficient method for accessing the needed drivers if you were to reinstall a brand new Win7 from scratch, it seems to me that everything you previously had in your prior Win7 installed system would indeed already live in your old C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository (or your private copy of it) and could thus be discovered by Windows if you asked it to "browse my computer for driver software" and navigated to your private copy of the old C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository folder.
Am I right?
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