Friday, August 12, 2011

Simple way of backing up and reloading your Windows XP Drivers

Some of you might be tired of installing drivers whenever you install fresh copy of Windows XP, I know  I am.. In this tutorial I will show you how you can back up your drivers and save them to your USB flash drive or CD/DVD disc. Here is a BAT script that will help you backup your drivers so you dont have to go through the drivers process again whenever you reinstall your Windows XP.
Copy and paste this script in Notepad  or your favorite text editor and save it as DriveCopy. Rename the TXT extension to BAT. Viola, now you have the batch file.
echo off
cls
pause
md \olddrivers
cd \olddrivers
xcopy c:\windows\help /h /y
xcopy c:\windows\inf /h /r /y
xcopy c:\windows\system /h /r /y
xcopy c:\windows\system32 /h /r /y
xcopy c:\windows\system32\drivers /h /r /y
pause
When you open this script it will start copying files into your C:/ drive hidden folder called olddrivers (you have to unhide them in folder options to see them). After you reformat, you go to device manager and reinstall the question mark drivers. When it ask for the cd, put it in.




3 comments:

  1. you come up always with the good tips to make our lives easier :) thanks!

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  2. I don’t have a XP, but I have encountered the problem occasionally with drivers after installing XP.. wish i had this before

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  3. is there anything like this for for winows 7 x64

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