I had to do a factory reset on a hand-me-down Samsung 500t tablet that was not acting right. After the factory reset, the wi-fi and touchscreen weren’t working and there was a long list of devices missing drivers in the device manager.
I used another computer to extract the drivers from an old Paragon HD backup of the tablet (also handed down to me fortunately!) and transferred them via flash drive to C:\500tdrivers
For you folks who don’t already know, this folder contains a backup of every driver on your computer:
C:\Windows\System32\driverstore\filerepository
I started out right-clicking each device in Device Manager and locating the inf file. This was taking way too long and I am not cut out for this kind of boring task. This process can get a little ridiculous when there are too many devices missing drivers.
This is the fix:
- Right-click Powershell and click run as administrator
- Run this command: Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
- Now, launch Powershell ISE as an administrator
- Copy and paste the below into the PowerShell ISE script pane
#Make sure you have your files ready on the C drive before you begin.
#You can get all the drivers from your old computer or VM or backup
Get-ChildItem “c:\500tdrivers” -Recurse -Filter “*.inf” | ForEach-Object { pnputil.exe -a $_.FullName }
#For unsigned drivers you will have to click “install” on the warning popup unfortunately
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