Solved Starting Over - Laptop with new Hard Drive

[FirstShirt]

Hi,

I have a Toshiba Satellite P875-S7102 Laptop,



Intel Core i7 3630QM @ 2.40GHz,



Two internal Drives;



111GB SanDisk SDSSDA120G ATA Device (SSD),


931GB Western Digital WDC WD10JPVX-22JC3T0 ATA

This laptop originally had Win 8.1 installed, but the hard drive crashed. I purchased the above two HDs thinking I’d install Windows 7 on the smaller SSD Drive and Programs, Documents, etc on the 1T Western Digital Drive.

My problem is I am in over my head on this one. Windows 7 is installed, but I have none of the DLLs or appropriate structure to use any of the hardware or even get online.

I can plug the original Hard Drive into the laptop and see most of the files on it. Whatcha think?

 

[samuria]

Did you not get a DVD with motherboard drivers that should have most of what you want failing that you need to try the makers site for drivers get network ones first so you can get that going to down load other drivers. There could be a problem that there are no drivers for Windows 7

 

[FirstShirt]

All I have is a 16GB USB from Toshiba marked "TOSHIBA:AMA40112301E SFF716593.

It contains various folders and files, none executable or bat file. (See attached JPG)

I have various software, like Speccy, Power Solutions, WinPE5.1, and others.

 

[FirstShirt]

By the way, I obtained this laptop through an estate sale. That's why no backups or installation disks.

 

[samuria]

Are there any . INF files that's what installs drivers you right click on them and there is an option to install

 

[FirstShirt]

Configuration settings,

Window Command Scripts,

application files (exe) [RicaLauncher, RicaPbrBuilder, and others],

efi files,

.dll,

WIM file,

SWM files [PREINST## files (66 total)]. These in the ZZIMAGES Folder.

No .inf files. I searched drive, got zero.

I wonder if this may be a "Copy & Replace" for some existing structure in a directory...

I can take a screen shot of any folder contents, if needed.

 

[samuria]

Are these the correct drivers Toshiba Satellite P875 Windows 7 64Bit Drivers

 

[FirstShirt]

Yes, I believe they are!

The laptop is a Satellite P875-S7102 64-bit

Do I simply download them and activate them on that laptop?

 

[samuria]

Get the lan driver first then you should be on the net and can download the others and install them I would save them to dvd for future use. They come as zip files so you will have to unzip them then there should be an install

 

[FirstShirt]

Wireless LAN Driver link on the site is dead. Goes to a 404 error... I'll try again later.

 

[samuria]

All the other seem ok get the lan driver and use a cable the main site has more drivers its possible win8 drivers may work or vista

Satellite P875-S7102 Support | Toshiba

 

[johnhoh]

One easy way to update all your drivers is to use a 16GB USB drive on a different computer that already has internet access and download SDI full. This will put every windows driver on the flash drive, then you move the flash drive over to your laptop and take it from there. You will need to have utorrent or any torrent downloader in order to do the download. I just tried it on my machine and its a ten minute download using my xfinity isp, but ymmv. pretty handy.

Download

 

[FirstShirt]

I don't yet have internet access on the Satellite laptop because I have yet to find the LAN driver for that model. Is that included in this SDI or will it simply try to access the internet to download the drivers? What, exactly is this SDI?

I'm DLing SDI now, but the weather (overcast, rain) making it slow. Plenty of Seeds/Peers but satellite is obscured.

 

[FirstShirt]

All the other seem ok get the lan driver and use a cable the main site has more drivers its possible win8 drivers may work or vista

Satellite P875-S7102 Support | Toshiba

This is a No-Go. Windows 8 only.

 

[johnhoh]

If you are on a slow connection you can always UNcheck the files for video, printers, and sound, at least for now. See the pic, which is sorted by file size. That will reduce the download by about 90%. Once you have an internet connection working, windows update may find the rest of your drivers for you. And/or, again once you have the internet working, SDI lite is more specific to your machine and will only download what you need. But since we did not know your ethernet/LAN adapter, SDI was an easy way to start.

But if in case your connection is super slow, you can forget SDI altogether and just do a start > run > msinfo32 > components > problem devices, which will show your problem devices (duh), of which you will have many. One of them will say LAN or ethernet and have a device ID string next to it. If you google that device ID, you will learn what brand ethernet adapter you have, and can then search to find its win7 driver.

 

[samuria]

All the drivers are on the link i posted for Toshiba specific to his PC

 

[johnhoh]

did not see any windows 7 drivers on that Toshiba link tho...

 

[FirstShirt]

If you are on a slow connection you can always UNcheck the files for video, printers, and sound, at least for now. See the pic, which is sorted by file size. That will reduce the download by about 90%. Once you have an internet connection working, windows update may find the rest of your drivers for you. And/or, again once you have the internet working, SDI lite is more specific to your machine and will only download what you need. But since we did not know your ethernet/LAN adapter, SDI was an easy way to start.

But if in case your connection is super slow, you can forget SDI altogether and just do a start > run > msinfo32 > components > problem devices, which will show your problem devices (duh), of which you will have many. One of them will say LAN or ethernet and have a device ID string next to it. If you google that device ID, you will learn what brand ethernet adapter you have, and can then search to find its win7 driver.

Problem Devices: (All noted as, The drivers for this device are not installed.)

Network Controller PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0890&SUBSYS_40228086&REV_C4\4&2EEAE01&0&00E1

Not Available ACPI\TOS1901\2&DABA3FF&1

Not Available ACPI\TOS620A\2&DABA3FF&1

Not Available ACPI\TOS1900\2&DABA3FF&1

PCI Device PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_5229&SUBSYS_FF1E1179&REV_01\4&21582ECC&0&00E4

PCI Simple Communications Controller PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1E3A&SUBSYS_FF1E1179&REV_04\3&11583659&0&B0

 

[samuria]

Satellite P875-S7102 Support | Toshiba you select the o/s you want from the drop down list win7 is there and even xp and vista

 

[johnhoh]

Satellite P875-S7102 Support | Toshiba you select the o/s you want from the drop down list win7 is there and even xp and vista

^ good call ^