Have you ever encountered such a situation when, after updating the drivers for one of the computer components or some peripheral device, they suddenly stopped 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 ways to solve problems that arise. Moreover, as we gain experience in this difficult matter, we will be able to become more and more skillful users, able not only to cope with our computer, but even to instruct others on the “path of experienced PC users”.

So what should you do if the driver update is very unsuccessful? Many in such cases immediately rush to reinstall the problem drivers again, from the installation disk 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 the Windows operating system with an administrator account. 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 appears warning that rolling back the driver to a previous version may negatively affect the functionality of the device. 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 the inoperative 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 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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Backing up the drivers is a necessary procedure before making any major changes to the system or. This is the best way to recover drivers in case of unforeseen circumstances.

I also advise you to create a copy of the drivers before doing it before the factory settings. Yes, you can always re-download all the drivers on the website of the manufacturer of the laptop, motherboard, video card, etc., and install them. But this process will definitely not bring you any pleasure. You need to know which drivers to download. And as usual, all the time something is not installed and the devices do not work.

3 After the end of the copying process, the files will be saved to the folder that we created. In the appropriate folders with the required files inside.

The action is over, now the drivers of interest will be available for the manual installation mode. This is at the end of the article.

If you are interested, then my folder with saved drivers took as much as 14 GB! I don't know why there are so many.

Using PowerShell to Save Drivers on Windows 10

PowerShell is a popular automation tool that started in early versions of Windows and remains relevant to version 10. The program is also multifunctional, with its help you can make backups, which are performed as follows:

1 We open the program on behalf of the PC administrator. The easiest way is to open the search bar and enter the name of the program. After that, on PowerShell, you need to right-click, choosing the appropriate opening method. If you have Windows 10 updated, then just right-click on "Start" and select "Windows PowerShell" (administrator).

2 Pre-create a folder for storing drivers. For example, on drive D called Drivers. Next, in the line that opens, you need to drive the command:

Export-WindowsDriver -Online -Destination D: \ Drivers

We are waiting for PowerShell to back up the device drivers and save them to the folder we created. At first glance, it may seem that the process is frozen, but it is not.

When the report appears, the window can be closed. I will show you how to restore the drivers below.

Using the PnP utility

This program is built into the Windows 10 system and does not need additional installation. Drivers are copied in the same way. You need to call the command line on behalf of the PC administrator, after which the command is entered:

pnputil.exe / export-driver * d: \ drivers

As in similar cases, you need to take care of creating the file storage folder in advance. You can save it on any of the disks, or a USB flash drive. The command specifies the path to the folder. I have this "d: \ drivers"

We are waiting for the process to finish completely.

The copying methods described above are the most simple and optimal. The user does not need to install additional programs, they are basic and always ready for use.

How to restore drivers in Windows 10 from a copy (folder)?

Backup drivers are a real salvation after reinstalling the system, allowing you to bring the updated PC into working order without a long search for the necessary drivers that match the brand and model of your computer. The recovery process is quite simple, which consists of the following steps:

Thus, you need to install drivers for all devices. You cannot perform this option in a complex manner. As a rule, you need to install only for unknown devices (with a yellow icon), for which Windows 10 was unable to select and install the driver itself.

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 a specific device. There are several ways to restore drivers after accidental damage or deletion.

Automatic installation

The easiest way to find a remote driver is to install it automatically. 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 the necessary 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 at 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 website and install it on your computer. Then you need to run a file called DriverPackSolution.exe. This file is 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 absence of an important driver, use boot in safe mode and install it from there.

Good day.

When installing a new Windows, as a rule, the system automatically configures many parameters (will supply universal drivers, set the optimal firewall configuration, etc.) .

But it just so happened that some moments when reinstalling Windows are not automatically configured. And, many who reinstalled the OS for the first time are faced with one unpleasant thing - the Internet is not working.

In this article I want to analyze the main reasons why this happens, and what to do about it. (especially since there are always a lot of questions regarding this topic) …

The most common reason there is no internet (approx. after installing a new Windows OS) - this is the absence of a network card driver in the system. Those. the reason is that the network card just doesn't work ...

In this case, a vicious circle is obtained: there is no internet, tk. there is no driver, and you cannot download the driver. no Internet ! If you do not have a phone with Internet access (or another PC), then most likely you cannot do without the help of a good neighbor (friend) ...

Usually, if the problem is with the driver- then you will see something like the following picture: there will be a red cross above the network icon, and an inscription, something similar to this: "Not Connected: No Connections Available"…

In this case, I also recommend to go to Windows control panel, then open the section Network and Internet, then Network and Sharing Center.

In the control center - on the right there will be a tab “ Change adapter settings"- and you need to open it.

In the network connections, you will see your adapters on which the drivers are installed. As you can see in the screenshot below, my laptop does not have a driver for a Wi-Fi adapter (there is only an Ethernet adapter, and even that is disabled).

By the way, check, it is possible that you have the driver installed, but the adapter itself is simply turned off (as in the screenshot below - it will be just gray and there will be an inscription: "Disabled"). In this case, just turn it on by right-clicking on it and selecting the appropriate one in the pop-up context menu.

Network connections

I also recommend looking into device Manager: there it will be possible to see in detail which hardware has drivers and which ones are missing. Also, if there is a problem with the driver (for example, it does not work correctly), then the device manager marks such equipment with exclamation points yellow ...

To open it, do the following:

• Windows 7 - in the run line (in the START menu) insert devmgmt.msc and press ENTER.
• Windows 8, 10 - press the WIN + R button combination, insert devmgmt.msc and press ENTER (screenshot below).

In Device Manager, open the " Network adapters". If your hardware is not in the list, then there are no drivers in the Windows system, which means that the hardware will not work ...

How to resolve the issue with the driver?

1. Option number 1- try to update the hardware configuration (v device manager: just right click on the title network adapters and in the pop-up context menu select the required option. See screenshot below).
2. Option number 2- if the previous option did not help, you can use the special utility 3DP Net (It weighs about 30-50 MB, which means that you can download it even using your phone. In addition, it works without an Internet connection. I told you more about it here:);
3. Option number 3 - download a comrade, neighbor, friend, etc. on your computer. special driver package - ISO image for ~ 10-14 GB, and then run it on your PC. There are a lot of such packages on the network, I personally recommend Driver Pack Solutions (link to it here:);
4. Option number 4 - if nothing from the previous one worked and did not give results, I recommend looking for the driver by VID and PID. In order not to describe everything in detail here, I will give a link to my article:

And this is how the tab will look when the driver for the Wi-Fi adapter is found (screen below).

If you cannot connect to the network after updating the driver ...

In my case, for example, Windows refused to search for available networks even after installing and updating the drivers - an error and an icon with a red cross were still displayed.

Further, the troubleshooting wizard will automatically begin to fix problems associated with network unavailability and advise you on each step. After the button has been pressed "Show list of available networks" - the troubleshooting wizard has configured the network accordingly and all available Wi-Fi networks are visible.

Actually, the final touch remains - choose your network (or the network from which you have a password to access :)), and connect to it. And that was done ...

Entering data for connecting to the network ... (clickable)

2. Disconnected network adapter / Not connected network cable

Another common reason for the lack of Internet is a disconnected network adapter (with the driver installed). To check this, you need to open the tab (where all network adapters that are installed in the PC and for which there are drivers in the OS will be shown) .

The easiest way to open is to press buttons together WIN + R and enter ncpa.cpl (then press ENTER. In Windows 7 - the line to execute is in START'e) .

Opening the Network Connections tab in Windows 10

In the opened tab network connections- pay attention to the adapters that are displayed in gray (i.e. colorless)... Next to them, the inscription will also flaunt: "Disabled".

Important ! If the list of adapters does not contain anything at all (or the adapters you are looking for are not present), most likely you simply do not have the required driver in the system (the first part of this article is devoted to this).

To enable such an adapter - just right-click on it and select "Enable" in the context menu (screenshot below).

After the adapter is turned on - pay attention if there are any red crosses on it. As a rule, a reason will even be indicated next to the cross, for example, in the screenshot below "The network cable is not connected."

3. Incorrect settings: IP, default gateway, DNS, etc.

Some ISPs need to manually configure certain TCP / IP settings (this applies to those who do not have, once these settings were entered, and then you can reinstall Windows at least 100 times :)) .

You can find out if this is so in the documents that the Internet provider gave you when concluding the contract. Usually, they always indicate all the settings for accessing the Internet. (as a last resort, you can call and clarify in support).

Everything is set up quite simply. V network connections (how to enter this tab is described above, in the previous step of the article) , select your adapter and go to this properties.

Ethernet network adapter properties

In the properties, you need to specify the data that the Internet provider provides you, for example:

• IP address;
• Subnet mask;
• main gateway;
• DNS server.

If the provider does not specify this data, and you have some unfamiliar IP addresses set in your properties and the Internet does not work, then I recommend simply setting the receipt of the IP address and DNS automatically (screenshot above).

4. PPPOE connection not created (as an example)

Most ISPs organize Internet access using the PPPOE protocol. And, say, if you do not have a router, then after reinstalling Windows, your old configured connection for connecting to the PPPOE network will be deleted. Those. you need to recreate it ...

To do this, go to Windows control panel at the following address: Control Panel \ Network and Internet \ Network and Sharing Center

Then select the first masonry " Internet connection (Setting up a broadband or dial-up Internet connection)»And click next.

Then choose “ High Speed ​​(with PPPOE) (DSL or cable connection requiring username and password)"(Screen below).

Then you need to enter your login and password to access the Internet (this data must be in the contract with the internet provider) ... By the way, please note that in this step you can immediately allow other users to use the Internet by ticking just one checkbox.

Actually, you just have to wait for Windows to establish a connection and use the Internet.

P S

Finally, I will give you a simple piece of advice. If you reinstall Windows (especially not yourself) - make a backup copy of files and drivers -. At least, you will be so insured against cases when there is not even the Internet to download or look for other drivers (agree, the situation is not pleasant).

For additions on the topic - a separate merci. That's all for this, good luck to everyone!

Mar 3 2015

How to restore a Windows 7 system on a laptop, a black screen appears when booting, the recovery environment does not work, I deleted everything 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 data backup software.

How to restore a Windows 7 system

Unfortunately, there are enough reasons for this trouble, ranging from incorrectly written drivers, harmful actions of a virus, file system errors and ending with our erroneous actions when working with a computer, you do not 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.

It has in its arsenal a fairly powerful and good tool -> 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 how to use Windows 7 recovery tools correctly, which 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 loading network drivers, etc.

Small digression: Before choosing the item 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 - a separate, hidden partition of the hard drive, its volume is only 100 MB, it is used to store boot configuration files (BCD) and the 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, with a volume of 9.02 GB, 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 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 disc with the Windows 7 operating system can be saved here. You can run the recovery tool by booting from the original Windows 7 installation disc by selecting System Restore at the very beginning.

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-> an analysis of malfunctions interfering with the normal loading of Windows 7 will occur and their further correction for the 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 replace paid data backup programs, 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 boot 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 an archived image of our Windows 7 on the hard disk using this function -> System Image Restore, we save 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 several hard disks in the system unit, 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 yourself can add Local drives for backup, 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 hard disk, 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 latest available system image.

Of course, all our data on the Local Disk, where the operating system is 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 failures, as well as restore the operating system from an archive copy that we created in advance.

Important: The system bitness 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 the Windows 7 bootable Recovery Disc 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 floppy drive and reboot, set the BIOS to boot from the floppy drive, as I said the boot disk, the System Recovery Options program starts.

Press Enter until the offer to boot from disk disappears.

An automatic recovery tool running from a disk will try to restore Windows 7 to start.

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 valid (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 My Computer. Now we need the system C: drive, attention, the drive letters here may be mixed up, but I think you can recognize the C: system drive by the Windows and Program Files system folders inside.

We go to the C: \ Windows \ System32 \ Config folder, here are the valid registry files, specify the File type - All files and 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 existing registry files from the Config folder with the backup registry files 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 a backup copy, 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 does not help, apply Windows 7 file integrity recovery, 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-> using it, you can delete files that interfere with the boot of Windows 7.

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