PC Angel (Recovery Partition) Not Installing Drivers

[RyanAbella]

Specs:

http://www.emachines.com/support/pro...es&model=T3522

Operating System: XP Home, Service Pack 2


I really hope you guy can help me because I can't find the CORRECT drivers for my computer anywhere...

I guess I will start from when there may have been a relevant issue.

About 2 or 3 months ago after using PC Angel successfully to restore my computer to factory settings with mcafee, bigfix, and all those things we hate, I accidentally put something in the recovery drive (e. I removed it, and when nuking maybe a month or so later, it worked fine. I started loving the PC angel system so much that I pretty much said to myself that if there were a problem, I would just nuke it anyways. I had nuked it a good 4 or 5 times until I ran into my first PC Angel problem.

It just installed windows, and it didn't install the drivers. I didn't have my network card, nothing. At first I was happy because it ran so much faster without all the factory sealed extraneous stuff. But I decided to nuke again because I couldn't find the drivers.

It worked, and I happily started using my PC again. Until about a month later, it started running very slow. I think I had a virus on my computer. So, I nuked my computer with destructive recovery as always.

It didn't have the drivers again. But this time, I wanted to find the drivers so I downloaded a lot of suggestions from various people but I couldn't find the right drivers (specifically for my network card). I thought I might be able to sift through the recovery partition because the drivers HAVE to be in there, and I did find some. So I COPIED the files to my other drive, and ran the installers there. I did NOT run them off the of the recovery partition. They didn't work however, so I figured I'd just try nuking it again, because sometimes it installs all the factory shipped applications, and sometimes it doesn't.

Well, I've restored the computer a handful of times, and every time it's not giving me the factory settings.

If anyone has any ideas AT ALL, could you please reply?

EDIT:

Summary:

Used recovery partition, successful.
Put a small file on partition and deleted it. Didn't seem to affect anything.
Later it didn't install drivers.
Nuked again and it did.
Got Virus on computer.
Nuked and it never installed drivers again.

[pam123]

Backup please.
You nuked the restore partition?

[glc]

I see XP drivers at your link for the chipset, audio, and video. The only NIC driver there is for Vista, but you can get an XP driver from Realtek.

http://www.realtek.com/downloads/dow...130/RTL8139B(L)