Window XP back up drivers

[kaisterkai]

Hey~

I would like to ask, how do you back up your drivers? Because I am planing to reformat my brothers computer, but I do not have all the drivers off his computer.. Is there anyway to keep the old drivers and install it on the new Window XP?

Thanks

 

[dequadin]

Download this program -> Speccy <- and run it on the machine you are going to format.

It will tell you exactly what hardware you have, and you can then go and download the correct drivers off the manufacturers website.

AFAIK there is no easy way to back up already installed drivers...

 

[Positively Negative]

driver magician did a decent job the one time i tested it but what you should seriously consider doing is as said above, and then after you reinstalled everything download Ghost and make an image of the hdd.im amazed how easy it is to go from a virus infected hdd or something fcks up and all you do is format and ghost and you good to go

 

[controlc]

devcon.exe

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272

Can be used to backup all your drivers to a central storage location

 

[Terencek]

DriverMax is another freebie which is excellent at backing up all your drivers at one click; it then classifies them by category, so when you reinstall (e.g. moving up to Windows 7) you can choose to reinstall only those you need. It asks for registration, but works OK without.

 

[dequadin]

Cool driver backup software guys Didn't know these things existed....

 

[kaisterkai]

Well it's ok now.. I found something that actually backs up my drivers..

It's called driver max, But the problem is I haven't tried if it works..

so I don't know..

(but there is an option for you to back up and restore it.. )