LostVideo settings after Reinstall

Originally I had a Vista machine with ACER ASPIRE 7000 settings put in by
Acer. I then upgraded to Win7 and lost everything when I was playing with
some disk image restore software. I then resinstalled W7 which is fine
except loads of drivers are missing. On the Acer website there are
various drivers available of which the one I think I need most is a "nVideo
VGA Driver" which is meant for Vista. Should I instal this to get better
suited visual appearence on the Win7 system. W7 had installed a generic
driver which does not give as good an appearence as I previously had.

If you know you have an nVideo - I assume you mean nVIDIA graphics card I
would go directly to their site and let it search your machine for the card
model and provide the correct drivers directly. I've upgraded mine that way
several times in preference to the windows update which can be generic when
it comes to drivers.

I hope that helps

ORC

"Mervyn Thomas" wrote in message
...
Originally I had a Vista machine with ACER ASPIRE 7000 settings put in by
Acer. I then upgraded to Win7 and lost everything when I was playing
with some disk image restore software. I then resinstalled W7 which is
fine except loads of drivers are missing. On the Acer website there are
various drivers available of which the one I think I need most is a
"nVideo VGA Driver" which is meant for Vista. Should I instal this to
get better suited visual appearence on the Win7 system. W7 had installed
a generic driver which does not give as good an appearence as I previously
had.

MY problem/opportunity has changed a bit - I now find I have 2 win7
installations. The original installation is behaving strange on disk
access but has all the original drivers. The new installation does not have
any problems except the drivers are windows generic and I cannot get the
video resolution up to 1440x900. I think the new installationn is in a C
partition and the old in D but I am not absoltely sure which is which.

So the new questions are how can I move a driver from D to C and then can I
simply reformat D drive to get rid of the crippled installation?
Mervyn


"Orc" wrote in message
m...

If you know you have an nVideo - I assume you mean nVIDIA graphics card I
would go directly to their site and let it search your machine for the
card model and provide the correct drivers directly. I've upgraded mine
that way several times in preference to the windows update which can be
generic when it comes to drivers.

I hope that helps

ORC

"Mervyn Thomas" wrote in message
...
Originally I had a Vista machine with ACER ASPIRE 7000 settings put in
by Acer. I then upgraded to Win7 and lost everything when I was playing
with some disk image restore software. I then resinstalled W7 which is
fine except loads of drivers are missing. On the Acer website there
are various drivers available of which the one I think I need most is a
"nVideo VGA Driver" which is meant for Vista. Should I instal this to
get better suited visual appearence on the Win7 system. W7 had installed
a generic driver which does not give as good an appearence as I
previously had.

I think you may need to repost this question as a new thread as you have
gone beyond what I could help you with



"Mervyn Thomas" wrote in message
news
MY problem/opportunity has changed a bit - I now find I have 2 win7
installations. The original installation is behaving strange on disk
access but has all the original drivers. The new installation does not
have any problems except the drivers are windows generic and I cannot get
the video resolution up to 1440x900. I think the new installationn is
in a C partition and the old in D but I am not absoltely sure which is
which.

So the new questions are how can I move a driver from D to C and then can
I simply reformat D drive to get rid of the crippled installation?
Mervyn


"Orc" wrote in message
m...

If you know you have an nVideo - I assume you mean nVIDIA graphics card I
would go directly to their site and let it search your machine for the
card model and provide the correct drivers directly. I've upgraded mine
that way several times in preference to the windows update which can be
generic when it comes to drivers.

I hope that helps

ORC

"Mervyn Thomas" wrote in message
...
Originally I had a Vista machine with ACER ASPIRE 7000 settings put in
by Acer. I then upgraded to Win7 and lost everything when I was
playing with some disk image restore software. I then resinstalled W7
which is fine except loads of drivers are missing. On the Acer
website there are various drivers available of which the one I think I
need most is a "nVideo VGA Driver" which is meant for Vista. Should
I instal this to get better suited visual appearence on the Win7 system.
W7 had installed a generic driver which does not give as good an
appearence as I previously had.

?If you have 2 W7 installations do you get the choice of which one to start
with when you start your system??
If so pick the C drive installation to start with and from there delete the
D installation.
Then go to the Nvidia website and let it automatically detect and tell you
which
driver you need.......download and install.

I have an older Acer that originally came with XP and a free upgrade to
Vista.I had
applied the upgrade years ago from an Acer supplied DVD. This upgrade also
changed
the restore partition that Acer incudes on their Laptops. When I installed
W7 i really had no
problem upgrading it from Vista by means of a NEW installation and then
going to the
Acer website and finding W7 drivers.
Under device manager it lists the name of the devices and that is what I
used to look
for the apropriate Acer W7 drivers

peter



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"Mervyn Thomas" wrote in message
news
MY problem/opportunity has changed a bit - I now find I have 2 win7
installations. The original installation is behaving strange on disk
access but has all the original drivers. The new installation does not have
any problems except the drivers are windows generic and I cannot get the
video resolution up to 1440x900. I think the new installationn is in a C
partition and the old in D but I am not absoltely sure which is which.

So the new questions are how can I move a driver from D to C and then can I
simply reformat D drive to get rid of the crippled installation?
Mervyn


"Orc" wrote in message
m...

If you know you have an nVideo - I assume you mean nVIDIA graphics card I
would go directly to their site and let it search your machine for the
card model and provide the correct drivers directly. I've upgraded mine
that way several times in preference to the windows update which can be
generic when it comes to drivers.

I hope that helps

ORC

"Mervyn Thomas" wrote in message
...
Originally I had a Vista machine with ACER ASPIRE 7000 settings put in
by Acer. I then upgraded to Win7 and lost everything when I was playing
with some disk image restore software. I then resinstalled W7 which is
fine except loads of drivers are missing. On the Acer website there
are various drivers available of which the one I think I need most is a
"nVideo VGA Driver" which is meant for Vista. Should I instal this to
get better suited visual appearence on the Win7 system. W7 had installed
a generic driver which does not give as good an appearence as I
previously had.

Thanks for your help - I was able to reinstall the driver from the second W7
partition into the first and now I will set about to delete this faulty
partition

"peter" wrote in message
...
?If you have 2 W7 installations do you get the choice of which one to
start
with when you start your system??
If so pick the C drive installation to start with and from there delete
the D installation.
Then go to the Nvidia website and let it automatically detect and tell you
which
driver you need.......download and install.

I have an older Acer that originally came with XP and a free upgrade to
Vista.I had
applied the upgrade years ago from an Acer supplied DVD. This upgrade also
changed
the restore partition that Acer incudes on their Laptops. When I installed
W7 i really had no
problem upgrading it from Vista by means of a NEW installation and then
going to the
Acer website and finding W7 drivers.
Under device manager it lists the name of the devices and that is what I
used to look
for the apropriate Acer W7 drivers

peter



If you find a posting or message from me offensive,inappropriate
or disruptive,please ignore it.
If you dont know how to ignore a posting complain
to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate :-)
"Mervyn Thomas" wrote in message
news
MY problem/opportunity has changed a bit - I now find I have 2 win7
installations. The original installation is behaving strange on disk
access but has all the original drivers. The new installation does not
have
any problems except the drivers are windows generic and I cannot get the
video resolution up to 1440x900. I think the new installationn is in a
C
partition and the old in D but I am not absoltely sure which is which.

So the new questions are how can I move a driver from D to C and then can
I
simply reformat D drive to get rid of the crippled installation?
Mervyn


"Orc" wrote in message
m...

If you know you have an nVideo - I assume you mean nVIDIA graphics card I
would go directly to their site and let it search your machine for the
card model and provide the correct drivers directly. I've upgraded mine
that way several times in preference to the windows update which can be
generic when it comes to drivers.

I hope that helps

ORC

"Mervyn Thomas" wrote in message
...
Originally I had a Vista machine with ACER ASPIRE 7000 settings put in
by Acer. I then upgraded to Win7 and lost everything when I was
playing with some disk image restore software. I then resinstalled W7
which is fine except loads of drivers are missing. On the Acer
website there are various drivers available of which the one I think I
need most is a "nVideo VGA Driver" which is meant for Vista. Should
I instal this to get better suited visual appearence on the Win7 system.
W7 had installed a generic driver which does not give as good an
appearence as I previously had.