Video:How To Backup Drivers on Your Personal Computer Important

You must have wondered what drivers are? For a layman its a bus driver who normally has a conductor at the door looking for passengers? LOL!!! Exactly, you got it 100% wrong. This drivers we are about discussing today on this post has no conductor or neither is it looking for a passenger. It is the system drivers (computer drivers).

For every computer engineer reading this this post will quickly and understand what we are discussing about and must have laughed over the first paragraph. Drivers are softwares which make the hardware, mother board components and the peripherals of a computer work perfectly well as they were suppose to have been.

What calls up for a driver is nothing else apart from formatting a system, and you can believe me, the computer engineers reading this post, that it is very hard to find drivers of different components of a computer such as the Sound Driver, VGA Driver, Chipset Driver Network driver etc….NOTE: This has been tested only on windows XP, 7, Vista and Windows 8, You can still try it out on other operating systems to see if it would work for you.

Today i will show you How to back up your computer driver before formatting the computer, this will help you after formatting your computer as you would never go looking for your system drivers instead you would restore/install the already backed drivers back to the formatted computer. And everything is in place and working pretty good.


HOW CAN I BACKUP DRIVERS ON MY LAPTOP, DESKTOP, PALMTOP ETC?

We will be making use of a software called DOUBLE DRIVER

STEP 1

Download double driver HERE then unzip, run and install it on the computer you wish to backup the drivers.

STEP2

After the installations open and run the software this will show you the lists of available tabs to help you in the navigation, and also to ease access of the software.

STEP3

Now go ahead and start backing up your drivers…. .

Select BACKUP.



STEP 4

Select  SCAN CURRENT SYSTEM to start scanning for available drivers which the software will back up for you.



STEP 5

After running Step 4, it will scan through your computer and bring out a list of available drivers for backup as shown in the picture below, select the drivers you wish to backup. It would be advisable you select all drivers to be on the safe side.

After selecting the list of drivers you need, then proceed and click on BACKUP.



STEP 6

A pop up window shows up asking you for a location which you want the drivers saved, and also in which format you would like to save. i will recommend you save the drivers to an external CD-Rom or hard disk. After selecting your choice then Click OK.



STEP 7

This will now copy your drivers and back them up in the directory you selected in step 6.



STEP 7

After backing your drivers up. the software will pop out a box showing you a successful backup message, Click on “OK” to finish, Now you can go to the folder/directory you saved your backup to retrieve them.


TO RESTORE/INSTALL  YOUR DRIVER BACKUP

Run double driver software as an administrator and then Select RESTORE



STEP 8

Click on locate backup then select the  location of your backup folder and click OK
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