How To Make A Backup Of Drivers And Restore On Windows 8/7/Vista/Xp

Many times you found that your system need a clean OS installation as some problem can't be removed in Windows OS except reinstalling OS. And This implies for all Windows OS may be your old Windows XP or current Windows 8.

But it's not really a problem to reinstall OS its just matter of some minutes and if you are installing Windows via pen drive or flash drive then a few minutes. The main problem arises in installing driver of all of your hardware like your optical drive or your display driver , sound driver etc.

Driver is a medium via which OS access that particular hardware on your machine mean if your PC don't have a display driver then you may see big everything on desktop , having no clearness. Laptop/notebook comes with preloaded driver and some company provide you some basic driver CD not all.

So after clean OS installations you may need to visit the manufacturer's site to download driver for your Laptop/notebook. If your model is very old then you may not find drivers on the manufacturer's site. Not only this installing driver one by one is somehow a headache. So avoid this problem the best way is to make a backup of your drivers , and after clean install of Windows OS just restore or install these drivers with one click.

So I am going to help you how to make a backup of drivers on Windows 8/7/Vista/XP and also help you how to restore your backup file. The method is simple and straight forward. Have a look-

Part I : How To Make Backup files of drivers


Step 1. Download Double Driver from here
Step 2. Unzip it and run "dd.exe" from the folder "Double driver"
Step 3. Now click on "Backup" option then click on "Scan current System"
Step 4. Mark those drivers you want to keep a backup, (better is select all) then click on "Backup Now"

Step 5. Browse the folder where you want to save backup files then click on ok.

Step 6. You will get a pop up that your backup files created.

Part II: How Restore your driver backup files 

Step 1. Run "dd.exe" as administrator .
Step 2. Click on "restore" tab.
Step 3. Now click on "Locate Backup" and browse the backup folder where you save backup files.

Step 4. Now click on "Restore Now" to restore your backup files.

 So next time you are going to reinstall OS then make a driver backup first.