wireless network connection icon disappeared after formatting HD

Hi,

After formatting my hard drive, I seem to have lost the icon for "wireless
internet
connection " in the Network connections section (of the control panel).
I have an HP laptop with a built in wireless connection and had a home
wireless
network set up for the past 1 year. I just formatted my hard drive today and
now
I am not able to see this icon and so am not able to connect wirelessly to
the router.

Please help..Thanks,

Bharath

Hi
Good advice from Nipi.
And the picture to go with it, http://www.ezlan.net/faq#ghost
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Nipi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> If you can't see the icon at all in "Network Connections" (not only is
> says that it's disabled), then most probably the device driver of your
> wireless is not installed, you should install it from the drivers CD
> which comes with the laptop.
> Open control panel>system>hardware>device manager, and see if in the
> list there is an item with a yellow? mark next to it
>
> On Dec 26, 10:11 am, enjoys999 <enjoys...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> After formatting my hard drive, I seem to have lost the icon for
>> "wireless
>> internet
>> connection " in the Network connections section (of the control panel).
>> I have an HP laptop with a built in wireless connection and had a home
>> wireless
>> network set up for the past 1 year. I just formatted my hard drive today
>> and
>> now
>> I am not able to see this icon and so am not able to connect wirelessly
>> to
>> the router.
>>
>> Please help..Thanks,
>>
>> Bharath
>