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Fresh install of Windows 7 from a recovery image
I have just done a fresh install of Windows 7 from an image (Samsung branded Recovery disk) I put on to my USB stick since my Samsung 400B2B Notebook does not have a DVD drive. I did the reinstall to get rid of the intensely annoying bloatware.
I am astonished that after the reinstall I am left completely driverless and when I go into device manager there isn't the slightest hint which wireless adapter (broadcom, intel or Atheros) or LAN hardware is installed. I have tried ipconfig again no help. The image taken from the Samsung CD is just under 4GB, so what the hell are they putting on there thats taking up 4GB?
So how on earth am I supposed to ascertain what hardware I've got? I stupidly assumed I would at least be able to get online by plugging in the ethernet, ha!
How on earth can Samsung supply a recovery disk which leaves you up the creek without a paddle so to speak. Yes I know I can use a bit of trial and error but I shouldn't have to.
This really is bare bones!!
But can this be normal practice?
Gus