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New to Tower ownership - Reformatting and Driver assistance request


Arek the Absolute
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I recently purchased a tower from my friend who went to the Marines, and I want to reformat it and install Windows 7. The problem I have, is that I don't know what equipment I have on this computer, nor the drivers for them and where to obtain them.

I was wondering if anyone knew any way for me to able to find out info for that stuff so I can go on and reformat this and install Windows 7 on it.

Thanks!

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You should try Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Device Manager and see what the names of the devices are under:

display adapters

network adapters

keyboards

mice and other pointing devices

sound, video, and game controllers

Make sure you get your network adapter drivers BEFORE you reformat. Also, Windows 7 has inherent generic driver support for a lot of hardware, but still, it's better to be safe.

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