Easy and Free Driver Backup and Restore - Walk-through and Tutorial - How to backup Windows drivers
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- čas přidán 24. 01. 2024
- Easy and Free Driver Backup and Restore
An easy way to backup and restore your drivers!
Walk-through and Tutorial
This is the command prompt code: dism /online /export-driver /destination:"replace this with full path of backup folder"
Or, from viewer 'instarshine,' this alternative one-step comment:
1. Create the backup folder and export drivers simultaneously: mkdir C:\Drivers & pnputil /export-driver * C:\Drivers Breakdown: mkdir C:\Drivers: Creates a new folder named "Drivers" on your C drive. &: The ampersand acts as a command separator, allowing you to execute multiple commands in sequence. pnputil /export-driver * C:\Drivers: Exports all drivers to the newly created "Drivers" folder.
2. Reinstall drivers from the automatically created backup folder: pnputil /add-driver C:\Drivers\*.inf /subdirs /install /reboot This command remains unchanged as it already targets the "Drivers" folder, regardless of whether it was manually created or created through the previous command. Key points: Run both commands in an elevated Command Prompt window for necessary permissions.
Monitor progress and errors: Keep an eye on the Command Prompt during both commands. Manual folder creation option: If you prefer, you can still create the "Drivers" folder manually before running the export command. Additional considerations: Folder path: Feel free to adjust the folder path (e.g., D:\Drivers) if you prefer a different location.
Free space: Ensure sufficient free space on the chosen drive for exported drivers. Reboot: The second command will initiate a reboot after installation.
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CMD code below: Thanks Carey! I just made a note of the code for myself and thought to share it here if okay?
This is the command prompt code: dism /online /export-driver /destination:"replace this with full path of backup folder"
Great! and nice that you make life easier for the community. Highly appreciated. Cheers!
Excellent - will be immensely helpful in speeding up clean reinstalls on 2 machines. No more worry about lost manufacturer drivers. Ashley , London UK
we need a book (paper please) that lists the DISM and Powershell commands..this was EXCELLENT... more like this
Will make a note of this command, Fantastic advice! Super useful! thanks Uncle Carey, 😎👍🏻- KISWUC (Keep it Simple With Uncle Carey).😊
Very cool! Thanks for this. New PC and did a driver backup, and backed up 185 drivers, clocking in at about 5.8GB and took less than a minute to put them in the drivers folder on the C: drive before copying to my flash drive.
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Thanks. Just what i needed for the future.
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I've been playing with this using BARD. The backup coding below will automatically create a backup folder. I also have the coding to then automatically reinstall the drivers, and while doing so it will create a paused list so no restarts happen midway, at the very end it will then reboot the computer.
Here it is:
1. Create the backup folder and export drivers simultaneously:
mkdir C:\Drivers & pnputil /export-driver * C:\Drivers
Breakdown:
mkdir C:\Drivers: Creates a new folder named "Drivers" on your C drive.
&: The ampersand acts as a command separator, allowing you to execute multiple commands in sequence.
pnputil /export-driver * C:\Drivers: Exports all drivers to the newly created "Drivers" folder.
2. Reinstall drivers from the automatically created backup folder:
pnputil /add-driver C:\Drivers\*.inf /subdirs /install /reboot
This command remains unchanged as it already targets the "Drivers" folder, regardless of whether it was manually created or created through the previous command.
Key points:
Run both commands in an elevated Command Prompt window for necessary permissions.
Monitor progress and errors: Keep an eye on the Command Prompt during both commands.
Manual folder creation option: If you prefer, you can still create the "Drivers" folder manually before running the export command.
Additional considerations:
Folder path: Feel free to adjust the folder path (e.g., D:\Drivers) if you prefer a different location.
Free space: Ensure sufficient free space on the chosen drive for exported drivers.
Reboot: The second command will initiate a reboot after installation.
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Nicely done! I'm impressed. Thank you for sharing this with us!
Thanks for making life easier for the community. Highly appreciated. Cheers!
By the way, great memories! for me - it reminds me of my nested batch files I created in the 80's and have them all executed on the DOS prompt. Every morning I'd fire up my PC and I'd see what's my schedule for the day hahahaha, in those days it was nice to do (Cls; echo off; etc.. hahahaha)
@@2freakout that's very interesting, thanks for sharing that. I was thinking of creating a batch file but then if I were to then leave it here on the open internet, not everyone might understand what it's for, and I wouldn't want to mess up people's computers by them running things they don't quite understand. Plus these days I have learnt not to complicate things too much for myself as I can spend hours upon hours thinking of new ways to do thinks*. I can think too much and end up down a rabbit hole. Like when I recently tried creating a batch file with ChatGPT to convert PDFs. That was in ChatGPT earlier days and the coding wasn't coming out quite right 🙈 🤣 . Very frustrating !However I think ChatGPT has improved, and now we have BARD too which is quite on the ball with coding.
Totally agree with you @@Imstarshine Although I may think I know a little about BATCH files especially EXECUTE.bat, I MUST SAY, I did make mistakes and those mistakes were the best AND hard way lessons to learn hahahaha. That being said, folks from that era who are still around know how to go around with command line (commands and switches) BUT I have doubts about folks in this era, some may indeed not know and make a mess if not huge mistake(s) easily and wouldn't know how to resolve or spending many hours to restore or start over from scratch (complete reinstall of the OS). There are, sometimes, many options to execute a task and sometimes only one way. The latter is very easy and as for the former, we'd take the one which we feel is easy and comfortable with. Thanks again for sharing YOUR WAY. MY WAY is that I drop my commands in a notepad file and save it with the .cmd extension and execute that file with a click/doubleclick. I do the same for MIRROR backups and other backups with Windows builtin app, ROBOCOPY. PS: my C-drive has ONLY my OS and programs installed (and I made 2 clones of it for safety reasons) my working DATA, photos, music, etc. are all on other HDDs and SSDs and 2-3 times MIRRORED (feels safe and comfortable). Thanks for lending an ear. Cheers!
@@2freakout thanks for the information, very interesting! I imagine you do quite a bit of backing up to various external drives. I'm currently looking for a good way to manage external drives. I wish there were an external usb hub that was capable of data transfer AND direct control via WiFi so I could plug all my gear in and say goodbye to the wires! But as we know there's no direct control via WiFi to most usb devices. How do you manage all your devices? There's no point in me setting up an IP controlled usb management software as I only use on PC. I'd also be interested to know what your choice would be for external SSDrive(s) for things like photo archiving where there is absolutely no room for corruption of archives or storage devices. Big ask as all devices are susceptible to failure but I would sure like to cut down the risk.
Thank You Carey ! Great info - just exported drivers from my NEW Minis forum UN100L that arrived today. First impression - V good- for the money -excellent. Paul Yates -Yorkshire