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How to back up your drivers with Driver Detective

Driver Detective makes it easy to back up your downloaded drivers.

So if you ever need to re-install any drivers, you don’t have to bother downloading them again.

Here’s how you do it…

Step 1 — Select the drivers to back up

Start Driver Detective and click History on the main menu.

Check (tick) all the drivers you want to back up.

selecting drivers to back up with Driver Detective

Then click Backup Selected at the bottom left of the screen.

launching Driver Detective's driver backup wizard

This will launch the Driver Backup Wizard.

Click Next to continue.

Step 2 — Choose a backup location

This can be your hard drive, a USB drive, or a CD/DVD.

I’ve chosen my slave (internal backup) hard drive.

selecting driver backup folder with Driver Detective

Click Finish.

Step 3 — Creating the backup

Driver Detective will now copy the drivers to your backup folder.

Driver Detective driver backup wizard writing files

Click Close once the back up is complete.

Step 4 — Check your backup

Go to the backup folder and check your drivers are there.

viewing the backed up drivers in My Computer

And that’s it. Done.

Any questions?

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