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Backing up my drivers before reinstall
How do I go about backing up my drivers? I thought there was a folder that held just the drivers, guess not. I then looked in the device manager to see if they could be downloaded from there???
Is there some kind of software that can help ferret out the drivers I will actually need after a system repair?
If there is, it needs to be simple to operate. Once I download them, can I put them on my external hard drive? Not sure how I go about restoring them either. I had hoped they were in some kind of folder and all I had to do was copy the folder, then just put the folder back afterward.
As my Granny used to tell me "If wishes were horses, beggars could ride".
I have to do a repair install, on the tutorial page it says to backup every thing including drivers. I've backed up every thing in my personal files, made copies of programs I don't have installation disc for too. I'm just not sure I have all of the Cd's that came with my Printers, camera's etc.. If I remove my hardware won't the plug and play recognize it as New and search for the driver? What about my internet? I have roadrunner with Time Warner, does that have a driver?
I'm going to have enough to do just getting back all of the Windows updates I'm going to lose. Just hope it doesn't load the ones that caused this mess in the first place!
Any help or advice would be much appreciated
George