I had a laptop like that. It had drivers which were only in the OEM image, and the only way I still had the image was because I used ghost and copied the hard disk stuff somewhere safe.
I eventually was able to find the real OEM for the USB 2 drivers after looking by PCI ID, but the video card maker refused to give drivers, saying only the OEM had say in that, so I wound up using a third party's drivers that actually could make the video work. Of course, after the laptop's fan bearings went south and sounded like a jet plane taking off, I just yanked the hard drive for an external device and placed the carcass in a drawer, if I ever might have to use it again.
With Windows post-Vista, drivers should never be an issue. By default, the driver OEM needs to register their software with Windows Update, so on initial install, the machine can go out, fetch the drivers and autoinstall them.
In any case, it is still wise (assuming this is not an enterprise with a large amount of machines) to either pull the HDD (again, if possible), image it off somewhere safe, or boot the machine to Ghost or CloneZilla and save the HDD image. This way, if there is a driver present, it can be found, and the machine can always be returned to its factory state should the need arise.