Using Driver Magician to backup and restore device drivers

Taking backup of device drivers installed on your Windows PC helps a lot in case any installed driver gets corrupt or you format your PC and find that driver CDs are either not available or not readable.

Driver Magician is a shareware program for device drivers backup, restoration and update in Windows. It identifies hardware items installed in the system, extracts associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice. Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can restore all the "saved" drivers just as if you have used the original driver CDs.

Driver Magician has a built in driver database which it can update over the Internet. Moreover, it can back up and restore more items such as registry, My Documents and desktop.

Download a copy of Driver Magician setup from http://www.drivermagician.com/ and launch it.

Click on Next button.

Accept the license agreement and click on Next button.

Click on Next button.

Click on Next button.

Click on Next button.

Click on Install button.

Click on Finish button.

Click on Register Later button.

Click on Options button.

Select Back up drivers to a self-extractor (.EXE) in Driver Backup Options, then click on OK button. Now click on Select All button.

Click on Start Backup button and choose a location to save self-extractor (.EXE) file, the click on OK button.

In the above case, we have chosen My Documents folder to save the driver backup file. Driver Magician starts backing up installed drivers and after a few minutes informs us that

Open the My Documents folder and we find that a MyDrivers.exe file has been created. We can now copy this file to a pen driver or burn it on a CD. In case of reinstallation of operating system, we can just run MyDrivers.exe file and reboot PC. All device drivers will be installed.