I made a boo-boo?

[Onlyone54]

I bought a new laptop at Best Buy, and had them swap out the hard drive it came with to a new SSD. But I didn't have time for them to update everything for me, and I was confident I could install my own OK and everything.

Well I installed a fresh copy of 8.1 onto the clean hard drive. But I can't activate windows until I connect to the Internet. And I can't connect to the Internet until I update the drivers on the wifi stuff installed. And a first for me, this laptop I bought doesn't have an ethernet port...

I'm stuck, have no idea how to proceed from here. Just take it back to BB when I have time and have them clone the old hdd and transfer that over to the ssd correctly?

 

[bluesky4us]

you need to look up your laptop modal online and find your drivers.

once the installers are downloaded put them on a flash drive and install them.

that is what crappy old best buy would charge you 50 dollars or whatever to do anyways.