Solved Formatted Win 8 Laptop & Installed Win 7. Need Drivers.

[Rus2]

I now need Win 7 drivers for my Toshiba laptop that had Win 8. Any good utilities out there that will download and install the necessary drivers compatible with Win 7?

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Some system specs would be nice Rus and depends on what you mean by drivers

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/180324-system-info-see-your-system-specs.html

BY the way what model Toshiba have you got and how did you install 7 - an OEM or retail??

 

[Rus2]

Some system specs would be nice Rus and depends on what you mean by drivers

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/180324-system-info-see-your-system-specs.html

BY the way what model Toshiba have you got and how did you install 7 - an OEM or retail??

OEM. What I'm looking for, if it is even available, is a site (software) that will determine what drivers I need for the particular OS and laptop manufacturer I have. Regardless if the person's OS or computer the software utility would have to have the ability to go in, analyze the data and download and install the necessary drivers.

There may not be such a utility but that is my question.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Well Rus I am under the impression that Windows downloads the drivers it needs. Any drivers you need for the machine or add on devices I use the manufacturer as those other driver softwares can be a tad dubious to use and often one can if not careful download rubbish you don't want.

In my experience any softwares that claims to clean up, speed up, or improve the machine in any way are crap. There are exceptions like CCleaner of course but the ultimate choice is yours.

Just a Google away but if you want my opinion I would stick to the makers drivers.

 

[Rus2]

Well Rus I am under the impression that Windows downloads the drivers it needs. Any drivers you need for the machine or add on devices I use the manufacturer as those other driver softwares can be a tad dubious to use and often one can if not careful download rubbish you don't want.

In my experience any softwares that claims to clean up, speed up, or improve the machine in any way are crap. There are exceptions like CCleaner of course but the ultimate choice is yours.

Just a Google away but if you want my opinion I would stick to the makers drivers.

Thanks for your input. I appreciate it. I was just hoping there was a reputable utility that would do much of the work for me. I'm sooooo lazy.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Thats ok Rus just didn't want you downloading some crap sites that would throw spanners of sorts into the works and also load stuff you don't need or can get rid of easily, and some of that rubbish is so easy to miss when downloading and installing whatever it is you have found.

Been there done that mate and the extra effort is worth it in the end.

 

[maxie]

Hi Rus .. If you fill in your System Specs and tell us what is the Make and Model Number of your Computer .. As requested by Icit2lol .. And then go to the Device Manager and tell us what Devices are missing .. We will help you find the Drivers ...

 

[theog]

Check for drivers here:
Drivers & Software Support | Toshiba

 

[Rus2]

I owe everyone an apology. My post was a theoretical scenario. I want to buy a new Toshiba laptop but they all come with Win 8 and I want to format and install Win 7 but I know I will need Win 7 drivers. I was hoping there would be an honest, trustful software package that would provide the necessary drivers. You see, I'm sooooo lazy!!

 

[maxie]

No such animal

 

[theog]

It is all about doing your homework.



My OEM test rig,Windows 8 specs:

OS Provided Windows 8 Pro 64-bit Edition Microsoft Office Preloaded Includes a pre-loaded image of select Microsoft Office 2010 suites. Purchase an Office 2010 Product Key Card or disc to activate preloaded software on this PC. Software Drivers & Utilities, Nero Essentials S, Microsoft Office 2010 Starter, Norton Internet Security (60 days trial), Recovery, Windows 7 / Windows 8 Pro Twin-Pack recovery DVD

Compatible operating systems

Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, Windows 7 Professional 32-bit, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, Windows 7 Home Basic (EM) 32-bit,\r\nWindows Vista, Windows XP, \r\nopenSUSE Linux

Windows 8.1 specs:

Windows 7 Professional Load with Windows 8.1 Pro license + Office 2013 trial,

 

[computergeekguy]

From my personal experience it is a pain. It is possible though. These are links from my past experience with this.

http://www.sevenforums.com/installa...s-8-laptop-do-i-need-worry-about-drivers.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/314367-installed-windows-7-laptop-used-have-8-1-need-drivers.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/...50g-8670m-switchable-graphics-driver-7-a.html

Toshiba actually saved my HP laptop. Toshiba was the only brand that had the driver I needed so my hp has a toshiba graphics driver lol

The ABSOLUTE first thing you do is backup your new win 8 laptop so if it doesn't work you can get windows 8 back. You should have something like a one time windows 8 partition with all your drivers. Make a disk of that.
The next thing you will need is the win 7 LAN driver so you can get internet.
Than you need to know what graphics system the laptop has and see if you can get drivers for it.

In the end i mostly used the windows 8 drivers lol. Some of them worked on 7.

Before you do this READ READ READ. There is a lot of stuff you need to know.

P.S. You will not have a MBR (Master Boot Record) partition table. You will have a GPT partition table.

You will also need to set your EUFI bios to legacy mode.

When you decide on a model of toshiba laptop let us know and we will advise you on how easy it will be to accomplish.

 

[jimroad471]

i have a dell d610 that was OEM win xp that i upgraded to 7 pro 32. I simply went to the dell site and found all the drivers that would work some using the win 7 compatibilty hardware wizard. win 7 also did a kazillion updates upon initial install and did some driver updates that worked great. this d610 i have is amazing...this old guy has 3.4 index and its fast as heck.
I am curious of why so many people dont want win 8. Does it suck or sumptin? anyway good luck with your system and from what I've seen of Toshiba systems, they load good good good hardware... let us know how your install goes

thanks Jim

 

[ICIT2LOL]

I owe everyone an apology. My post was a theoretical scenario. I want to buy a new Toshiba laptop but they all come with Win 8 and I want to format and install Win 7 but I know I will need Win 7 drivers. I was hoping there would be an honest, trustful software package that would provide the necessary drivers. You see, I'm sooooo lazy!!

Well Rus I upgraded my Toshiba (and Sandy Bridge) from 7 to 8 then to 8.1 and have it running as a 7 machine using Stardock and Classic Shell.
The former you pay for the Classic is free and to be honest there is not much difference between 7 & 8 in my view apart from slight alterations to back up, how a PDF is opened, and msconfig settings. As a matter of fact the Toshiba now runs five times faster with 8.1 than it did with 7. You can flick between the two different systems although i run mine almost exclusively in 7 mode.

The alternative is to just get an OEM 7 and install it - if I were you on a new drive so that you can keep the old 8 drive as a spare and if you wanted to experiment.

 

[Rus2]

I owe everyone an apology. My post was a theoretical scenario. I want to buy a new Toshiba laptop but they all come with Win 8 and I want to format and install Win 7 but I know I will need Win 7 drivers. I was hoping there would be an honest, trustful software package that would provide the necessary drivers. You see, I'm sooooo lazy!!

Well Rus I upgraded my Toshiba (and Sandy Bridge) from 7 to 8 then to 8.1 and have it running as a 7 machine using Stardock and Classic Shell.
The former you pay for the Classic is free and to be honest there is not much difference between 7 & 8 in my view apart from slight alterations to back up, how a PDF is opened, and msconfig settings. As a matter of fact the Toshiba now runs five times faster with 8.1 than it did with 7. You can flick between the two different systems although i run mine almost exclusively in 7 mode.

The alternative is to just get an OEM 7 and install it - if I were you on a new drive so that you can keep the old 8 drive as a spare and if you wanted to experiment.

Sounds like the way to go. Thanks.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Well if you don't store a lot of documents pics etc then I would go a SSD (a whole lot faster) for the drive if you can afford it a 250GB suits me fine (even a 120GB would do) and if you do store a lot of pics and docs then use an external which you should anyway via a regular imaging.

TIP I always back up the registry as soon as the install has settled down after the updates.

Mind yo don't forget doing this might void the warranty if new.