Hello there. I'm going to format my Lenovo G500, but the internet doesn't appear after the format (I had formatted before). I will download the driver from Lenovo's site, but there is no Windows 10 on the operating system. Where can I find the driver?
Let's save your existing hardware drivers to your a external drive. I will name it Z:
Create a folder on Z: drive called Drivers. Open a Command Prompt (Admin): click on the Windows start icon, just start typing Command. Once Command Prompt appears in the search results right click on it and select Run As Administrator. Answer Yes to the UAC prompt. In the Command Prompt window that opens run the following command:
dism /online /export-driver /destination:Z:\Drivers
Any driver currently installed that is not included with Windows is saved to different folders under Z:\Drivers. After the clean install, if you get any hardware with triangle ! or "unknown device"s in Device Manager, you can manually install the driver by right clicking on it in Device Manager, select Update Driver, then Browse my computer for driver software. Enter the path to Z:\Drivers. NOTE: after the clean install, the drive letter Z: will change! Change the following instructions to the new drive letter! It may be something like E:\Drivers after the clean install! Make sure the Include Subdirectories box is checked. Then Next. Your hardware driver will be installed from the one you exported! I would only do this if you need to re-install a network card driver to get on the internet, then run through all the Windows updates first.
(credits to NavyLCDR)
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