Lost all my drivers!

Hey guy's. Here's the issue I had today. For some reason after I went back to Windows 7 Home Premium from Windows 8.1 OEM Builder due to license agreement violation (GRRRRR) I installed all my programs and did all my updates. But after I did my Windows updates for Microsoft Office and rebooted I lost all my drivers! But Windows reinstalled them automatically like they were just installed and Win was booted up with new drivers. I was wondering if anyone ran into this before and what caused it?

What makes you think this happened?

gregrocker said:

What makes you think this happened?

When Windows rebooted I lost all my drivers and Windows loaded basic drivers.. Such as Graphics card.. Wireless Card.. and Realtec PCI Bus drivers etc etc.

What I am trying to find out is how you discovered this. What exactly told you that you lost all drivers which is not possible? What were you doing exactly when this happened? You'd have to run SysPrep to generalize the install to remove all drivers, which is an involved process.

Windows is supposed to provide the drivers anyway.

Just out of curiosity, was this a black screen with white text scrolling?

You also mention this was after a bunch of updates, which to me just sounds like windows was re-configuring after installing the updates.

gregrocker said:

What I am trying to find out is how you discovered this. What exactly told you that you lost all drivers which is not possible? What were you doing exactly when this happened? You'd have to run SysPrep to generalize the install to remove all drivers, which is an involved process.

Windows is supposed to provide the drivers anyway.

When I logged in I had Windows is installing drivers thing on the taskbar and when I clicked it I saw Windows installing all my system drivers. I wish I would of taken a screen shot when I could.

derekimo said:

Just out of curiosity, was this a black screen with white text scrolling?

You also mention this was after a bunch of updates, which to me just sounds like windows was re-configuring after installing the updates.

I was like 54 Important updates for Microsoft Office Professional 2013.

gregrocker said:

What were you doing exactly when this happened?

Windows is supposed to provide the drivers anyway.

I was installing Microsoft Office updates and it happened after reboot. Sorry I missed that part of the question

jpolacko said:

When I logged in I had Windows is installing drivers thing on the taskbar and when I clicked it I saw Windows installing all my system drivers. I wish I would of taken a screen shot when I could.

This is something we see sometimes when Automatically deliver drivers via Windows Update (Step 3) is enabled, which I believe was recently reset by default to enabled by a Window Update. Is it possible you had significant numbers of devices in the Device Manager that needed drivers, or that were outdated?

gregrocker said:

jpolacko said:

When I logged in I had Windows is installing drivers thing on the taskbar and when I clicked it I saw Windows installing all my system drivers. I wish I would of taken a screen shot when I could.

This is something we see sometimes when Automatically deliver drivers via Windows Update (Step 3) is enabled, which I believe was recently reset by default to enabled by a Window Update. Is it possible you had significant numbers of devices in the Device Manager that needed drivers, or that were outdated?

I had already updated my drivers. This was a fresh reinstall using HP Recovery and I updated my drivers using HP Support. Thinking about it now.. I believe I did install some optional drivers using Windows Update after I had updated them using HP Support