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    CF-19 driver loading

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by Liteace, Apr 16, 2021.

  1. Liteace

    Liteace Notebook Consultant

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    Hello ALL, I hope your all OK seing as the world is a bit sideways at mo.

    Need help please, I have here a hard drive that I need to put in one of my CF-19's, this harddrive is pre-loaded with software with generic drivers for w7, I done know if the CF will boot with these drivers, the OS (w7) and the software was loaded with this drive plugged into main comp as an external drive,

    I can do the same, I can external drive it, I have the CF drivers but where do they live, where do I put them, I heard some of you experts have loaded the drivers before fitting the hard drive or when using that drive in another Toughbook

    Thanks
     
    Liteace, Apr 16, 2021
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    Shawn Crackpot Search Ninja and Options Whore

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    I had a main boot drive in one machine. Lets say a CF31(i don't actually recall)I ran the driver install pack on the 31 for the let's say 19. Then I pulled the drive and put it in the 19.
    It worked.
     
    Shawn, Apr 16, 2021
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    steve.steve Company Representative

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    It will boot with generic drivers. Copy the driver pack for your model into the root of C:
    It will make life easier.
     
    steve.steve, Apr 17, 2021
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  4. Liteace

    Liteace Notebook Consultant

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    Yes it booted with the generic drivers, sorry for the dumb question, why copy the driver into the root of C:
     
    Liteace, Apr 21, 2021
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    If you can't access the internet and the USB driver is not loaded you have the driver pack already on the local disk.
     
    steve.steve, Apr 21, 2021
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    safn1949 I'm sure I'm on the wrong planet

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    I learned something new, excellent
     
    safn1949, Apr 23, 2021
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    Liteace Notebook Consultant

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    This is all up and running, I loaded the a couple of toughbook drivers and all good
     
    Liteace, Apr 27, 2021
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