Computer crash

[haunteddoc]

Well my hard drive is dead. Unfortunately the resource disk was on the D: partition which was not backed-up, I know stupid mistake.

I have the new hard drive installed and found the operating system resource disk and downloaded all the drivers. I plan on reinstalling everything this weekend.

My question, does it matter in what order I reinstall the drivers?

 

[Grumpwurst]

I don't think there is a specific order. Granted if you have devices that you need to use, you'll want their drivers installed first. But, I bet a bunch of them will get installed when you boot to windows and it discovers hardware that needs "installing"

 

[mSummers]

I don't think there is a specific order. I recommend rebooting after every driver even if it does not require a reboot. If you have a problem, you'll know which driver caused it... learned that one the hard way once.

 

[haunteddoc]

Got it back up and running. Found the system restore disk which got Windows up and going then downloaded the drivers I needed. Tried installing the chip set first then installed each driver and rebooted after each install. So far everything seems to be running fine. Only thing I lost was my most recent LightRoom backup. Not sure what happened there.