Installing Windows 7

[lostsoul62]

I'm getting rid of an old PC so I zeroed out all the Hard Drives and did a clean install for Windows 7 and installed the drivers for the NIC. I don't remember how to get the NIC to work so I can upgrade it to Windows 10 and I don't remember how to get the sound to work?

 

[johnb35]

Windows 10 should have all tbe drivers for windows 7 hardware however there may be some it can't install because of compatibility.

 

[lostsoul62]

I can't put Window 10 on the PC untill I get Windows 7 on the Internet

 

[johnb35]

So you currently don't have the ethernet driver installed? Go into device manager and it will either be an unknown device entry or network adapter entry. Right click on it, click on properties, click on details tab, change property to hardware id and then give me the 4 digit vendor and device ID Numbers. They will look like this. Will then tell you what driver you need to download and install.

 

[beers]

I can't put Window 10 on the PC untill I get Windows 7 on the Internet

This doesn't make sense to me, just make the install media for windows 10 and install that. It probably also has your drivers either baked in or on windows update.

 

[StrangleHold]

This is true, if you can up grade to windows 10 you don't need to upgrade from window 7. Just install 10

 

[lostsoul62]

I don't have Windows 10 DVD but if I can get on the Internet I can upgrade to Windows 10 for free? I have a computer that's on the Internet and can download and transfer the Windows 10 image but I don't know how?

 

[johnb35]

https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2265055

Thats the media creation tool, download it, run it. you can either create a dvd or usb to install windows 10.

 

[Couriant]

If you are worried about licensing, then as long as the machine had Windows 10 before, then it should reactivate the license when you do a clean Windows 10 install.