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Only if you have a location on the hard drive where you've saved the drivers
before installation. You cannot save drivers individually once they've been
installed. They are not usually a single file, they are installed similar
to an application with files all over the place. Without disks for your
various devices, modem, graphics card, soundcard, etc. internally and
whatever external devices you have, printer, scanner, etc. you need to go to
the device manufacturer's website and download the drivers for your various
devices. It's fairly simple and straight forward and will give you the most
recent XP compatible drivers for your devices.
Note, this is preferable to using "driverguide" and other such services as
suggested in this thread. I've tested some of these sites and the drivers
to which they point are often dated and they often don't pick up the
necessary updates when available or even all your devices.
--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/
"Bob" <Bob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CA882813-95BE-4550-B424-0054382EE520@microsoft.com...
> Michael
> I do not have any disks. Is it possible to back up the drivers from my
> hard
> drive as I have not yet formatted it
> Bob
>
>
> "Bob" wrote:
>
>> I want to format the hard drive on an old computer, but I do not have all
>> the
>> driver files on disk, which I will need to reinstall after formatting the
>> hard drive. Can I save these drivers to a disk and if so what path do I
>> use
>> to find them in "C" drive. I am using Windows XP Home OS
>> Thanks
>> Bob
>>
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