Pain Free Driver Backing Up and Restoration
Posted in Downloadable, Geeky by Dan at 7:01 pm
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Doing a clean install is a bitch. Thats why most people don’t do it. You have to be sure all your documents are backed up, then you have discs of all your programs, then UH OH you forgot the drivers! Any geek knows what a nightmare it is to find and download and install the dozens of drivers that you need to get your hardware to run properly.
Driver Magician eases this pain, it identifies all the hardware in your computer, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice. Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can restore them with ease.
Another must have for your toolkit. Works with all versions of Windows and is totally Free.
Hey, good stuff man!…
Driver Magician lite :
free,
fast,
backs up drivers to a directory, descriptive directory names ex: “\NVIDIA GEFORCE FX\ ”
no restore (but you have the directories which should work.).
didnt try to restore.
481 files backed up
DriverMax:
free/registerware,
slower (2x),
backs up to zip file or directory, cryptic directory names “\display\oem3.inf\”
has ‘restore’ function (from that zip file or directory)
didnt try to restore.
303 files backed up.