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Driver Installation Without Installation Disk

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This article about device driver installation without installation disk.

If missed your driver installation disk, how to find about your device drivers?

If you need to install driver for your PC,

Go to Device Manager.

Start > type Device manager (OR)    Start > Run > type devmgmt.msc

Yellow mark will be displaying here if driver not installed.

Refer this link to know about device manager error codes.

[http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771355%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

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In this case I’m going to explain about Code 28 (Driver not installed)

If driver not installed, then how it can be works?

Right click and select the properties of the device.

In the General tab, error code will be displaying here.

Select Details tab.

Select Hardware ID from the drop down list.

Select the first line - PCI\VEN_YYXX & DEV_YYYY&SUBSYS_XXXXXXXX&REV_YY

We need to search with Vendor ID and Device ID.

Go to [www.pcidatabase.com

](http://www.pcidatabase.com/)
Type your vendor ID and click search. (Leave blank for Device ID box.)

Lots of Device ID will be listing here.

You can find your device ID from the listed contents. Last four digits only your device ID.

For your convenience press Ctrl + F in your browser. Search option shall be enabled. Type and find your Device ID.
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Copy the URL from corresponding location of your Device ID.

Paste the URL into new browser tab and download your drivers.

You can download all those drivers without installation disk. Sometimes driver will be available without .exe file. Driver supported files only
downloaded.

In this case, Go to Device Manager > Right click and select the Update driver the device which you want to install the driver

Select “Browse my computer for driver software” to locates your driver folder.

 

Note: All drivers will be downloading from Manufacturer websites.