what's the best bootable USB set of tools that will let me write driver files to my Windows NTFS partition? I formatted my Win8 laptop to put Win7 back on it but forgot my USB3 drives won't work and have no USB2 drives on the machine at all and no network drivers are installed so I have no way of getting my drivers on this thing haha

I need a good bootable USB tool that'll let me copy the driver files over onto the SSD drive so I can boot back into windows and get to them...

5/2/2013 3:53:12 PM

Have you tried Hiren's?

5/2/2013 7:14:40 PM

slave drive to another pc/laptop?

5/2/2013 7:35:42 PM

Quote :

"Have you tried Hiren's?"

5/2/2013 7:54:54 PM

I wonder, have you tried Hiren's?

5/3/2013 12:24:16 PM

TWW trolling is slipping, I'm surprised no one has posted and asked if you've tried Hiren's

5/3/2013 2:20:20 PM

Make sure you go to the correct Hiren's page.

http://www.hirensbootcd.org/

http://www.hirensbootcd.org/files/Hirens.BootCD.15.2.zip
Filesize: 592.5 MB (621283886 bytes)
ISO MD5: 7EFC81ADBBD551D56F6021C439C6837C
ZIP MD5: D342BBD6BF7554ABA24A376E41675DBF


Actually, YUMI is quite awesome too.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/

[Edited on May 3, 2013 at 5:57 PM. Reason : Did I get trolled?]

5/3/2013 5:56:20 PM

just put Win8 back on

5/4/2013 7:00:46 AM

usb3 is 100% backwards compatible with usb2

5/4/2013 11:20:34 AM

I think what he's saying is that his laptop only has USB 3.0 ports and Windows 7 has no native support for USB 3.0. So he needs drivers. But he has no way of getting drivers on the laptop since he has no USB 3.0 support.

5/6/2013 6:02:31 PM

I still say he should try to get dat Win8 back on

but failing that he could sacrifice a CD-R

5/6/2013 7:08:19 PM

the OS would still have hostbus drivers that would allow for usb1.1/2.0 support, since I'm sure his keyboard and mouse worked during the install

[Edited on May 6, 2013 at 7:35 PM. Reason : laptop keyboard and mouse should be hardwired into usb]

5/6/2013 7:34:54 PM