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Aquawhite

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A few of you might remember when I got my netbook for school. It came with gOS, a distro of linux which i was relatively pleased with. I tried installing XP via bootable USB and all went okay until I tried connecting the internet and discovered that approximately 8 drivers were missing!

I'm a little down about it since I couldn't keep gOS as well as XP but I saved the files I needed (my school work, music and movies).
 

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Bahaha got a friend with a bootable disk?
 

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You should be able to get drivers from the manufacturers website

im assuming you have an agora
 

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Couldn't you get the drivers for your network adapter manually from another computer, install that, get connected to the net and then windows will dl all other drivers
 

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Google is your best friend.

Use device manager to find out what hardware needs drivers or a program called Everest and then google each piece of hardware + drivers
 

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I already had a computer guy around the corner do it for me. I didn't know a lot of what to do really... but obviously now I can.

I also got emailed by the company an entire zip. full of all the drivers -_-

ah well, next time...
 

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