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From: Trouble on 3 Dec 2009 16:40 I installed a new hard drive on a friends Dell desktop after his crashed. After installing XP I had a tough time finding drivers for all the hardware. Dell's website had a tons of drivers for his build number and it took forever to find the ones that worked. I'm thinking I should backup my drivers and while I see a lot of software for this I would rather understand what I'm doing. Can I just backup C:\windows\system32\drivers or do I need to do more? Thanks
From: David B. on 3 Dec 2009 16:45 Back up the files you downloaded. -- -- "Trouble" <Trouble(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:61F76EDF-4E27-44F7-8EF2-C6BACCD8CBB6(a)microsoft.com... >I installed a new hard drive on a friends Dell desktop after his crashed. > After installing XP I had a tough time finding drivers for all the > hardware. > Dell's website had a tons of drivers for his build number and it took > forever > to find the ones that worked. > > I'm thinking I should backup my drivers and while I see a lot of software > for this I would rather understand what I'm doing. Can I just backup > C:\windows\system32\drivers or do I need to do more? > > Thanks
From: Trouble on 3 Dec 2009 17:43 Hi David, Of course I put the files I downloaded for my friend on a CD. But I was wondering about my machine which is working fine. If I had a hard drive crash I would like a driver backup along with my data backups. "David B." wrote: > Back up the files you downloaded. > > -- > > > -- > "Trouble" <Trouble(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:61F76EDF-4E27-44F7-8EF2-C6BACCD8CBB6(a)microsoft.com... > >I installed a new hard drive on a friends Dell desktop after his crashed. > > After installing XP I had a tough time finding drivers for all the > > hardware. > > Dell's website had a tons of drivers for his build number and it took > > forever > > to find the ones that worked. > > > > I'm thinking I should backup my drivers and while I see a lot of software > > for this I would rather understand what I'm doing. Can I just backup > > C:\windows\system32\drivers or do I need to do more? > > > > Thanks > > . >
From: mikeyhsd on 3 Dec 2009 18:54 all the dell cd's I have seen have drivers for their specific hardware. driver for the harddrive should have been with xp. what else was missing. mikeyhsd(a)hotmail.com "Trouble" <Trouble(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:61F76EDF-4E27-44F7-8EF2-C6BACCD8CBB6(a)microsoft.com... I installed a new hard drive on a friends Dell desktop after his crashed. After installing XP I had a tough time finding drivers for all the hardware. Dell's website had a tons of drivers for his build number and it took forever to find the ones that worked. I'm thinking I should backup my drivers and while I see a lot of software for this I would rather understand what I'm doing. Can I just backup C:\windows\system32\drivers or do I need to do more? Thanks
From: Shenan Stanley on 3 Dec 2009 23:47
Trouble wrote: > I installed a new hard drive on a friends Dell desktop after his > crashed. After installing XP I had a tough time finding drivers for > all the hardware. Dell's website had a tons of drivers for his > build number and it took forever to find the ones that worked. > > I'm thinking I should backup my drivers and while I see a lot of > software for this I would rather understand what I'm doing. Can I > just backup C:\windows\system32\drivers or do I need to do more? Really? You did just go to Dell's site, downloads section and enter in the service tag of the Dell computer, right? Then choose the proper OS? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |