Missing Ethernet/network drivers

[Handymanmitch]

My Puter was acting up and full of clutter. Took nearly 2 min. to start up. Didn't know what half the junk was so I simply backed it up on a thumb drive and re-installed Windows 7 home professional 64 with the disk I got with the Puter. Couldn't access the internet afterwords. Ethernet controller Driver and network drivers were not there!  I have downloaded them from HP website onto the thumb drive and want to try to re-install home professional again. (I had to install Win 8 because that's the only other disk that came with the PC. It did get me on the internet though.) After I run the install disk again, will I be able to add the drivers off of the thumb drive?

[IT_WinSec]

Hello,

Welcome to the HP Support forum. Thank you for posting !

Please, provide the full computer model in order to get specific answer

>> http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Miscellaneous-Topics-Read-Only/Advice-for-asking-the-quot-Very-Best-Que...

Thank you for your cooperation !

[Handymanmitch]

It's an "HP ProDesk 405 G1 MT". Thank yo0u for your interestin helping me.

[IT_WinSec · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Thank you for the provided information.

Here >> http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=6559745 is the general URL where you can select supported Windows versions and download the necessary driver

Windows 7 x 64 specifically here >> http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=6559745&swLangOid=8&swEnvOid=4060

Once you open the link, scroll down to Driver-Network, click on the + to expand it and download all the applicable drivers. Save them to a USB thumb drive and you can eventually install them.

Let me know if this works for you.

[Handymanmitch]

Okay. Thank you. I might keep  Win 8 for now....getting used to it....I have the missing files on a thumb drive now so if iI decide to re install 7 home professional i'll be ready.

Thanks again.

Mitch.

[IT_WinSec]

You are most welcome !