Quick way of backing up drivers

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Geek

Guys,

I am trying to back up all the drivers on my machine. Last time I had
to format the hard drive I has hard time finding the drivers suitable
for couple of cards. What is the best way to back up the drivers on the
machine that has the Windows XP OS. I have seen the drivers folder
under windows folder. Can someone please direct me!.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
 
The choice is yours, I have never done this thing before so never tried any of these,
search for "drivers backup" and you will found what you need. Here are the links I
picked from Google :
I think this tool is good, it backup + search web for update of drivers (I will run
it once):
http://www.driverguidetoolkit.com/
Another tool:
http://www.zhangduo.com/driverbackup.html

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: Guys,
:
: I am trying to back up all the drivers on my machine. Last time I had
: to format the hard drive I has hard time finding the drivers suitable
: for couple of cards. What is the best way to back up the drivers on the
: machine that has the Windows XP OS. I have seen the drivers folder
: under windows folder. Can someone please direct me!.
: Any help will be greatly appreciated.
: Thanks,
:
 
Geek said:
Guys,

I am trying to back up all the drivers on my machine. Last time I had
to format the hard drive I has hard time finding the drivers suitable
for couple of cards. What is the best way to back up the drivers on the
machine that has the Windows XP OS. I have seen the drivers folder
under windows folder. Can someone please direct me!.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
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Some preloaded machines come with a "Drivers" folder.
Back it up! Others come with a bunch of CDs. Label
them and keep them in a safe place! Sometimes you may
download drivers from the Internet. Store them in a suitably
labelled subfolder of your "Drivers" folder, record when you
got them and where from, and back them up too.
 
For installed drivers, I'll let others provide the answers, but here's a
idea for the future. Make of it what you will.

Personally I keep a folder on one of my partitions with all the drivers I've
downloaded/installed/know works and organize them by device type (eg, I have
a 'video' folder, 'printer', 'nic', 'scanner', etc, further subdivided into
manufacturer/model/OS subfolders). As I download/install newer driver
versions, I add it to the tree, and delete the oldest version (I usually
keep the latest 2 or 3 versions I've used but delete anything older).

The folder's still small enough to all fit on a single CD, and I burn an
updated copy every couple of months. It covers all the hardware and
peripherals I have in my 6 machines.

That way I always have a copy of all my most recent drivers in a single
location.
 
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