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Posted byHalcyon
Posted on04/24/05 11:18 AM



> Does anyone know of a way to back up the device drivers from a Windows
> installation, and then restore them to a fresh install of Windows?
>
> I know that I need to take the INF folder, but what else?

Shit that's in the System32 folder, and System32/Drivers or something

What I used to do is I would just move my old WINNT folder to somewhere else, re-install Windows, then whenever it asked for a driver I pointed it to OldWinNT\INF and when it would ask for the driver files I pointed it to OldWinNT\System32, OldWinNT, and OldWinNT\Drivers, then all your drivers from the old Windows would carry over to the fresh install.

Unfortunately any software that comes with drivers (for example Creative's EAX control panel) would not be reinstalled.

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*Windows Drivers  Ben Doon04/22/05 10:13 AM
..Re: Windows Drivers  Halcyon04/24/05 11:18 AM
..*Re: Windows Drivers  Ben Doon04/25/05 09:51 AM