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I'm replacing the hard drive in my PC, so I'm going to be copying the driver files from the old to the new via an external hard drive. I'm using Windows XP,
and the driver files should be in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers... but I checked the Driver Details in device manager for my sound and graphics cards, and
some of the files are in the C:\WINDOWS or C:\WINDOWS\system32\ directory.
e.g:
sound:
C:\WINDOWS\SOUNDMAN.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ksproxy.ax
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ksuser.dll
RTLCPAPI.dll
RTLCPL.exe
wdmaud.drv
graphics:
3 .bin files and 6 .dll files with the name "sis[something]".[extension] - all in C:\WINDOWS\system32
The files in the drivers folder have the extension ".sys"
Do I need to copy the entire WINDOWS directory or just the drivers folder?
and the driver files should be in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers... but I checked the Driver Details in device manager for my sound and graphics cards, and
some of the files are in the C:\WINDOWS or C:\WINDOWS\system32\ directory.
e.g:
sound:
C:\WINDOWS\SOUNDMAN.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ksproxy.ax
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ksuser.dll
RTLCPAPI.dll
RTLCPL.exe
wdmaud.drv
graphics:
3 .bin files and 6 .dll files with the name "sis[something]".[extension] - all in C:\WINDOWS\system32
The files in the drivers folder have the extension ".sys"
Do I need to copy the entire WINDOWS directory or just the drivers folder?
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