If you have ever had to reload your system, then you know the pain of trying to find all of your drivers.
I ran across a free tool called “Driver Backup”
It allows you to backup all of your current drivers, and it will even generate a special install script that you can run to automatically install them.
To use it, start out by downloading it from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/drvback/
Extract the files, and run the main executable. It will show you all of the drivers it finds on your system. I ran it on a new Windows 7 x64 install:
Select the folder you want to backup your drivers to, and pick your options:
Select the option to generate a automatic install script. I highly recommend it since it makes the restore process a breeze.
Click backup, and it zooms through your drivers and copies them to the destination folder:
When it is finished, each driver is saved to a folder. That way, you can easily identify them:
If you picked the option I recommended above, it will also have an easy to use script that you can run to restore your drivers automatically:
Run it, and it will prompt you to restore them:
Awesome little utility. I will be using it after I get my drivers installed on a new system. Burn it to a DVD, and tape it to the side of the box. That way a format & reload will be a little less painful.
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Hi Steve,
Thanks for the nice tip!! 🙂
Its good…..but not impressive.
I would like to suggest:
Driver Genius Professional 9.0.0.190
not only you can backup all drivers even you can update & restore them very easily.
BTW its not a freeware……
PS: i used “Driver Backup-2.1.0.0” on my XP PRO+SP3 system total driver backedup size 106 MB!!
where in driver genius the same is 36 MB!!
more over no of drivers are reported incorrectly by driver backup (its a common problem with every driver backup program!!)
Thanks for the info. I will check it out.
@MKVRC – What are you trying to communicate? That none of the drivers were reported incorrectly by driver backup? That would seem to be a good thing, not a bad thing.
@BK, sorry for the confusion here (no = number; not none)
as i said if you try 10 different driver update programs….every one shows different drivers are either missing or needs update!!
if you want i can share list of the programs with you 🙂