Driver help please!!

[SeZ2010]

Hi i have an acer aspire 5610 tht the HDD crashed on a while ago. I put an XP HDD in it but now i need all the drivers before i can run the net on it. I don't  have the disc and I cant burn one as I'm using a netbook, I tried downloading them from the acer site onto a usb but they are only system files that i cant open. please help!!!

[Allan]

PUNCTUATION!!

[SeZ2010]

Sorry

[Allan]

Well please fix the first post so we can understand it. I, for one, cannot. Thanks.

[SeZ2010]

Hope you find that easier to read.

[Allan]

Okay, thank you. If I understand correctly you put in a new HD and installed XP, and now you need the drivers (correct me if that's not right). You've downloaded the drivers, they are on a usb drive, and you don't know how to proceed - good so far?

You say they are "system files". What does that mean? Post the FULL file names of some of the drivers please.

[SeZ2010]

Well first I thought I would start by downloading the LAN driver. I downloaded it and it was a ZIP file called Lan_Broadcom(5787)_9.25.0.0_XPx86. So I extracted it and there were 3 files b57wn32 which is a security catalog, B57xp32 which was a system file, and b57win32 which was setup information.

[Allan]

It appears these are the drivers you want (http://gd.panam.acer.com/home/). Download them and install them, starting with the chipset driver. If you have problems post back.