My friend recently bought a new TOSHIBA Satellite C855D-S5340 laptop, and I offered to replace his Windows 8 OS using the Windows 7 disk I have. I was able to get it to read the Windows 7 bootable USB I made, and the OS installed mostly without a problem, except that no drivers for the laptop were installed besides the basic ones windows installs. I've never had this issue before, and if some drivers didn't get installed right away, Windows Update would take care of them.

I have searched the Toshiba website for the model in order to find the latest drivers, but installing them seems to have no effect. The graphics are low-res and bloated. It's WiFi is not working (I had to use my own USB WiFi Card). I'm a bit embarrassed because I've formatted plenty of computers for friends, but I'm suddenly not feeling like such a 'Superuser' anymore! Could any real superusers out there lend me a hand? You might have previously installed windows with a vendor supplied Windows disk, not a retail version of windows. The retail version includes the most common drivers.

The Vendor version of windows includes almost all of the drivers for the devices they include for that hardware. Download Free Adobe After Effects Weather Template After Effects. Also a vendor's version of windows will (usually) confirm that the hardware is the same platform and won't let you install on a non-vendor platform (e.g. A Dell Windows 7 install disc will pop up an fatal install error when tried on a HP laptop etc). And since it came with a windows 8 license, you can downgrade to 7 legally.