How to back up and restore drivers in Windows 10, backup and restore drivers in Windows 10

After reinstalling the computer, you usually have to reinstall the Driver for it to work. Usually each machine will have the Driver stored in 1 drive and every time you want to use you have to use that disc. So why do not you back up the Driver version to facilitate the installation process. The following article details how to backup and restore drivers in Windows 10, backup and restore drivers in Windows 10

1. Clean up your computer before backing up.

Before performing backup driver you need to remove the entire file system clutter avoid Backup all junk files:

- Enter the keyword % temp% and proceed to clean up the junk files in the system:

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- Select the entire junk file by pressing Ctrl + A -> right-click and select Delete or press Shift + Delete to delete all junk files.

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- Enter the keyword Disk CleanUp to clean junk files in the drive of the operating system installation:

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- Select the drive to install Win, for example here choose drive C -> OK:

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So you have finished cleaning your computer. Now you just need to backup all Driver data .

2. Backup and restore Driver in Windows 10

Step 1: Create a folder in the drive to store the Backup Driver, usually create a folder outside the C drive to avoid risks, for example here create a Backup_Driver folder in drive D:

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Step 2: Press the key combination Windows + X -> the window appears selecting Windows PowerShell (Admin) (some computers choose Comand prompt (Admin)) to access cmd with Admin rights :

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Step 3: The interface window displays the command: dism / online / export-driver / destination: D: Backup_Driver -> press Enter:

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- The backup process successfully displays the message stream

The operation Completed Successfully:

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- Open the Backup_Driver folder of Driver data that has been backed up:

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- So using the cmd command you can quickly create backup files of Driver.

- In case, after reinstalling the computer, you need to install the Driver for the computer without much effort, you only need to access cmd with admin rights (similar to creating Backup file ) to enter the command line: dism / online / Add-Driver / Driver: D: Backup_Driver / Recurse -> press Enter to automatically update the Driver for your computer without using the disc:

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