Silly question

davedudes · 28 Nov 2010 at 19:38

Im getting a new pc in a couple of days and just want to run a few questions past you guys.

Just bought a 4gig USB flash drive for driver and software tranfer im currently on a Windows Vista 32bit Laptop, my new rig is Windows 7 64bit, and was wondering can I tranfer drivers and such from the vista 32bit system and then move the drivers using the flash drive to a win7 64 bit setup using usb or would I run into problems with the file system? Do they both run NTFS?

If you have questions I shall try and answer them.

rpstewart · 28 Nov 2010 at 19:40

You'll be able to use the flash drive fine on both machines.

davedudes · 28 Nov 2010 at 19:47

rpstewart said:
You'll be able to use the flash drive fine on both machines.

Thanks

SimonC · 28 Nov 2010 at 20:24

Surely you want to be using Windows 7 64 bit drivers instead of 32 bit Vista drivers?

davedudes · 28 Nov 2010 at 20:41

SimonC said:
Surely you want to be using Windows 7 64 bit drivers instead of 32 bit Vista drivers?

Im downloading the win vista 32bit drivers then transfering them over to the new rig.

SimonC · 28 Nov 2010 at 20:45

Why are you downloading vista 32 bit drivers?

theheyes · 28 Nov 2010 at 20:48

You will want/need x64 drivers for x64 Windows.

davedudes · 28 Nov 2010 at 20:56

Oh balls got it wrong

, im downloading the 64bit drivers to the flash drive on a 32bit vista laptop then transfering them to my new rig which has win7 64, jesus i think im confusing myself.

SimonC · 28 Nov 2010 at 20:58

lol doh, well at least your downloading the right drivers.

davedudes · 28 Nov 2010 at 21:01

SimonC said:
lol doh, well at least your downloading the right drivers.

I finally got there, need a lie down now.

roger_37 · 28 Nov 2010 at 21:20

davedudes said:
I finally got there, need a lie down now.

stay cool u'll be ok.

SiriusB · 28 Nov 2010 at 21:32

I am confused.

You wont need to install any drivers for your USB flash drive to work. Windows 7 supports a vast array of hardware "out of the box" so to speak.

Any other drivers you will need for Windows 7 will have to be 64-bit drivers.

SimonC · 28 Nov 2010 at 21:44

SiriusB said:
I am confused.

You wont need to install any drivers for your USB flash drive to work. Windows 7 supports a vast array of hardware "out of the box" so to speak.

Any other drivers you will need for Windows 7 will have to be 64-bit drivers.

He's just getting the 64 bit drivers for the new pc, sticking them on a usb drive then copy/install from that, while using a 32 bit os to grab the drivers.

davedudes · 28 Nov 2010 at 21:57

^^^ yep

SiriusB · 28 Nov 2010 at 21:59

OK makes sense now!

Though there is very, very high chance you can get the drivers using the Windows 7 system, since it will have built in drivers for pretty much all your hardware. The only thing I usually need to install is VGA drivers and stuff for specific devices.