Installing drivers for various hardware is one of the most important elements in setting up your computer's operating system. It is extremely difficult to find a "lost" driver for some specific device... There are several ways to restore drivers after accidental damage or deletion.

Automatic installation

The easiest way to find remote driver- it is his automatic installation... To do this, open the properties of the "My Computer" menu, go to "Device Manager" and enter the name of the device for which you want to update the driver. Then you need to right-click on it and select "Update drivers".

Installation from the site

If the first way to find the driver did not work. Then you can try to find it on the official website of the device manufacturer. To do this, go to the site, you should study its structure, find required driver and, after downloading, install it on your computer. You can also use Device Manager to install

Installation with software

Experts advise to always have on hand various useful programs which are databases of the most common hardware drivers. One of these programs is Driver Pack Solution. Learn the sequence of steps on how to recover a deleted driver using this program.

First, you should download this program from the official site and install it on your computer. Then you need to run a file called DriverPackSolution.exe. This file located in the root directory of the program. After the program is open, an automatic scan of the hardware installed on the computer will start immediately. Most likely, the system will offer to update outdated device drivers in order to install updated software for non-working hardware.

At the next stage, you should select the drivers that are necessary for installation on the computer, after which you need to click on the "Update all" button. You will then need to restart your computer to apply the settings. As a rule, this must always be done when installing drivers for important elements, for example, a video card or a motherboard.

When choosing new driver update packages for stable hardware, you should be extremely careful. The thing is that before being released for free access, not always new drivers are tested. Then the program may incorrectly detect your device and offer to install the wrong driver for it. To be on the safe side, you should create a system restore checkpoint before upgrading. If your computer cannot boot normally, due to the lack of important driver, use the download in safe mode and install it from there.

Recently faced this situation: computer stopped seeing the network, respectively, the Internet was gone. What to do in this case? Let's figure out how to fix it without internet and driver disc. So, let's begin. Everything worked for you, and suddenly the Internet went out, and on the screen appeared the inscription “ Network cable not connected". Right-click on the START button and select "Device Manager" in the window that opens.

And we see that the driver network card either installed incorrectly, or absent altogether. But since everything worked before that, we can conclude that the driver has not gone anywhere, but just Windows, for some reason, stopped seeing it. Accordingly, in order to restore everything, we do not need the Internet or a disk with drivers. We'll just tell the system where the lost driver is located. Right-click on the driver with exclamation mark and choose to update the driver.

In the window that opens, select "Search for drivers on this computer.

A new window will open in which you need to click on "Select a driver from the list of already installed".

A short list of two to three drivers will open.

You need to select one of them (if you do not know which one, you can try in turn) and click "Next". It remains to wait until the end of the installation, reboot computer and rejoice at the newly earned Internet.

Have you ever come across such a situation when, after updating the drivers for one of the computer components or some peripheral device did they suddenly stop working? This does not happen often, but it does happen sometimes. There is nothing particularly surprising here, because it is no secret to anyone that the Windows operating system is far from perfect and generous with all kinds of system errors. But, on the other hand, this OS is the most popular and convenient to use, so we will not rush to go to the camp of "penguin lovers", but rather continue to continue using the familiar system, simultaneously figuring out how to solve problems that arise. Moreover, as we gain experience in this difficult task, we will be able to become more and more skillful users, who can not only cope with their computer, but even instruct others on the "path experienced users PC".

So what should you do if the driver update is very unsuccessful? Many in such cases immediately rush to reinstall problem drivers again, from the installation disc or by downloading them from the Internet. However, there is a much simpler way out of this situation. The fact is that the Windows operating system automatically saves backup copies of drivers immediately after they are installed, so you just have to roll them back, which is done using the OS tools and is not difficult.

The first thing you need to do is log into operating system Windows under account administrator. Then open the menu Start, go to Control Panel and go to section Device Manager.

In the device manager window, open the branch that opens access to the device you need. Then right-click on the icon of the inoperative device and select the item Properties.

The properties window for the selected device will open. In it you need to go to the tab Driver and press the button Roll back.

A dialog box will appear warning that the driver is rolling back to previous version may negatively affect functionality devices. Push Yes and roll back the driver.

After that, all that remains is to restart the computer and the restored driver will start functioning again.

In the case when a non-working driver of one of the system devices prevents the normal loading of the operating system, you can boot from a USB flash drive or LiveCD disc and restore the driver, and if this does not help, then roll back the system using the function Archiving and restoring... You can read more about how to create a bootable disk and how to use it in the article System Restore with Kaspersky Rescue Disk.

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Mar 3 2015

How to recover Windows system 7 on a laptop, a black screen appears when booting, the recovery environment does not work, I deleted all hidden partitions, there is no original Windows 7 disk.

Spent a lot of time, tell me what to do now, or at least how to insure myself against such situations in the future, preferably without using paid programs Reserve copy data.

How to restore a Windows 7 system

Unfortunately, the reasons for this trouble are enough, ranging from incorrectly written drivers, harmful actions of a virus, errors file system and ending with our erroneous actions when working with a computer, there is no need to be afraid of such problems, you need to learn how to deal with them effectively.

Let's think about how to restore the windows 7 system, as well as insure ourselves for the future from possible troubles using the backup and recovery tools built into the operating system.

We will learn how to restore Windows 7, without using third-party backup programs, even when the System Recovery Options are not loaded and the F-8 button is useless.

Has in its arsenal a powerful enough and good tool-> The recovery environment, which is created automatically when installing Windows 7 in a hidden partition and contains five other tools that solve numerous malfunctions and problems.

Note: If you learn to use the right tools Windows recovery 7, and this is not difficult, you can do without additional and paid data backup programs.

You can start the recovery tool by pressing the F-8 button on your keyboard immediately after starting your computer. After that, you will see the Advanced Boot Options menu: Computer Troubleshooting, then Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Boot network drivers etc.

Small digression: Before choosing Troubleshoot computer problems, try the easier option - Last Known Good Configuration - in simple words, the operating system always remembers the last successful boot of the computer and enters this information into the registry.

If there are problems with loading, Windows can remember the registry parameters and driver settings that were used at the last successful boot of the system and use them if you select the Last Known Good Configuration option.

If this tool does not help, select the first -> Computer troubleshooting,

Next, we get to the Windows 7 System Recovery Options menu, we need it, it is here that we can select the System Restore Tool we need, there are five of them, let's take a closer look at how they all work.

The first thing to do is apply Startup Repair (Automatically fix problems that prevent Windows from starting).

Desired digression: After pressing the F-8 button when the computer boots, you may not have the item> Troubleshoot computer problems, but only Safe Mode, and so on, the question arises why.

When installing Windows 7, the recovery environment partition is created automatically and is located in the root of the drive (C :) in the Recovery folder. You can also see in the Disk Management window - separate, hidden section hard drive, its volume is only 100 MB, it is used for storage boot files boot configuration (BCD) and system boot loader (bootmgr file).

You can see it on Computer-> Management-> Disk Management. In no case should you delete this partition (many people delete it out of ignorance), otherwise you will not start the recovery environment, that is, you will not have the item Troubleshooting computer problems, and in more severe cases, you simply will not boot the system.

On the lower screenshot, you can see another hidden partition, 9.02 GB in volume, this is a hidden recovery partition with the factory settings of my laptop, you may have it larger or smaller. It is also better not to delete it, if necessary, you can always restore Windows 7 from it.

What to do if you do not have a partition with the recovery environment and when you press the F-8 button in the Advanced Boot Options menu, the item Solving computer problems does not appear? How do you restore your Windows 7 system then?

The installation disk with the Windows 7 operating system can save here. You can run the recovery tool by booting from the original installation Windows disk 7, selecting at the very beginning the System Restore item.

If you do not have the installation disc, then you can use the Windows 7 Recovery Disc (you can make it in any running Windows 7) in five minutes, then you can also boot from it and do the same.

So, we still got to the System Recovery Options, either using the F-8 button and the Troubleshoot item, or the Windows 7 installation disc or Windows 7 Recovery Disc.

In the Select System Restore Tools menu, select the first:

Launch recovery-> analysis of faults interfering with normal booting Windows 7 and their further correction for normal loading and functioning of the operating system.

In the process, we may be warned that problems were found in the boot parameters, click Fix and restart.

System Restore-> using this function, we will be able to select a previously created system restore point, if we have it enabled, and roll back to the time when our Windows 7 worked fine and booted, everything is simple here.

System image recovery-> I personally use this tool, with skillful use it can be replaced paid programs on data backup, if interested, read on.

What is it good for? It will help when you do not have the original Windows 7 installation disc and you have deleted the hidden partition with the factory settings of your laptop, but that's not all.

Sometimes there are situations when, for various reasons or due to the actions of a virus, you will not be able to load the operating system at all, or many ask How to restore the Windows 7 system, even if the menu with Additional boot options is also unavailable. Reinstall the operating system again?

Therefore, immediately after installing Windows 7 on your laptop or computer, using this function, we create -> System Image Restore, archival image our Windows 7 on the hard drive, we take care of it.

Be sure to create a Windows 7 Recovery Disc (see below), it will help you use the System Image if the Advanced Boot Options menu will not load.

We go to Start -> Control Panel -> Archiving computer data.

We select "Create a system image".

In my case, Local Disk (E :), if you have system unit some hard drives, then of course it is better to place the backup on the hard drive where the operating system is not installed.

By default, the data backup program will select the partition with the Windows 7 operating system itself, if you wish, you can add Local drives for backup yourself, if only you have enough space.

Note: You can see that I have two operating systems installed on a laptop, so the backup program selected two Local drives.

Click Archive and the process of creating an archive with our Windows 7 will begin.

Created, it will look like this.

Now, if necessary, you can deploy the archive with Windows 7 to your computer in 20-30 minutes. It will be better if you copy the archive with the system additionally to a portable HDD, this will make you doubly safe.

Let's imagine that we cannot start Windows 7 and deploy the backup we created, do it together.

We launch the Windows 7 Recovery Tool by pressing the F-8 button on the keyboard immediately after starting the computer.

The Advanced Boot Options menu opens, select Troubleshoot computer problems.

System image recovery

Use the latter accessible image systems.

Of course, all our data is on Local disk where the operating system is currently being restored will be deleted, so you can pre-boot from any Live CD and copy what you need.

How else can you restore your Windows 7 system? With the help of Windows 7 Recovery Disc, of course.

Let's create one that can be used to boot the computer, it will contain recovery tools with which you can restore Windows 7 boot faults, as well as restore the operating system from an archive copy that we created in advance.

Important: The bitness of the system is important for the recovery disk, you can use a 32-bit recovery disk for any 32-bit Windows 7, and a 64-bit recovery disk for any 64-bit Windows 7.

Going again Archiving computer data.

Create a system recovery disc, insert the DVD into the drive, click "Create Disc".

When boot disk Windows 7 recovery is ready, put it in a safe place.

In order to restore Windows 7 from the Recovery Disc, you do not need, in principle, any working operating system at all.

You only need to change the boot priority to the floppy drive in the BIOS of your computer, insert the recovery disc into it and restore your Windows 7 using the archive.

Many people here can draw an analogy with data backup programs and this is correct, they work according to the same principle, only their functionality is, of course, more convenient.

Recovering Windows 7 from the Recovery Disc. I am showing you how to do it. Let's say we are in trouble, we cannot start Windows 7, when we press F-8 on the keyboard immediately after starting the computer, nothing happens.

We cannot get into the menu with Additional boot options and an error message is displayed. In this case, the system archive on the hard disk is not available to us. It was this kind of trouble that happened to our reader Ilya, who wrote us a letter asking for help.

In this situation, many reinstall Windows 7 from scratch, but not you and me, because we have a System Restore Disc.

We insert it into the drive and reboot, set it to BIOS boot from the drive, as I said the boot disk, the System Recovery Options program is launched.

Press Enter until the offer to boot from disk disappears.

An automatic recovery tool running from a disk will try to repair Windows startup 7.

If all else fails, choose any tool, try, for example, Restoring your computer using the previously created image of the operating system.

We use the last available system image.

What other ways are there to restore Windows 7?

There is another little-known way to restore Windows 7 boot after a crash, and I'll tell you about it. At first glance, it will seem difficult to many, but nevertheless it often helps me out.

The fact is, friends, that a very large part of the problems due to which you cannot boot Windows 7 lies in registry errors. And Windows 7 wouldn't be Windows 7 if it didn't have a mechanism to protect registry files. Such a mechanism exists and creates archive copies of the registry in the RegBack folder every 10 days, regardless of whether you have system restore enabled or not.

If you cannot solve problems with booting Windows 7, you should try replacing the existing (and apparently damaged) registry files from the Config folder with archive files from the RegBack folder. To do this, we will have to boot the computer from a Windows 7 installation disc or a Windows 7 recovery disc.

Boot into the recovery environment, select the command line.

We type in it - notepad, we get into Notepad, then File and Open.

We go into the real explorer, click on My Computer. Now we need the system drive C :, attention, the drive letters here may be mixed up, but the system drive C: I think you can find out by the system Windows folders and Program Files.

We go to the C: \ Windows \ System32 \ Config folder, the current registry files are located here, we indicate the File Type - All files and we see our registry files, we also see the RegBack folder, in which the Task Scheduler makes a backup copy of the registry keys every 10 days.

So, we will replace the current registry files from the Config folder backup files registry from the RegBack folder.
So, first of all, we will delete from the C: \ Windows \ System32 \ Config folder the SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, DEFAULT, SYSTEM files, which are responsible for all the registry hives (my advice is to copy the registry hives somewhere just in case, just in case).

In their place, copy and paste files with the same names, but from backup, that is, from the RegBack folder.

Note: All files SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, DEFAULT, SYSTEM cannot be deleted, delete them one by one. Then copy the same files from the RegBack folder to their place.

Friends, if this did not help, apply the restoration of integrity Windows files 7, if the operating system does not boot, it is done in the same way as in Windows 8.

What else do we have from Windows 7 recovery tools?

Memory Diagnostics 7-> checks the system memory for errors. Command line -> with it you can delete files that interfere with the boot of Windows 7.

I hope our article on how to restore a Windows 7 system helped you.

That is, returning them to the previous version is unique Windows feature which is supported in all new versions of the OS.

Windows saves the previously installed drivers and allows you to automatically restore them, which makes it possible to significantly save time if it has led to the inoperability of system or peripheral devices.

To restore the driver:

1. You must log on to the Windows operating system with an administrator account.

2. Find the “My Computer” icon, right-click on it and select “Properties” from the drop-down menu.

3. On the “Control Panel” tab, click on the “Device Manager” button.

4. In the list of devices, double-click the branch corresponding to the inoperative device. For example, clicking on the "Video adapters" branch expands its contents.

5. Select the device you are interested in and, by clicking on it, in context menu click "Properties".

6. In the new dialog box, select the Driver tab and click Roll Back.

7. By clicking “Yes”, thereby confirm your choice in the window containing the message “Do you really want to restore the previously installed archived old version driver? "

8. The previous driver will be restored. Click on the button to close the window. 9. Close the device manager window, click on the “OK” button and restart Windows.

In the worst case scenario, when the failure of the system device driver caused the entire OS to crash, you can return to restoring the driver by booting the computer in Safe Mode. It is also possible to return the system to a previous operable state using the Revert to Last Known Good Configuration function.

System Restore is an alternative solution that allows you not only to revert to your previous hardware configuration, but also to discard all changes to software and the registry.