Maybe you’re doing a clean install of Windows 10 on your system or just reinstalling it. The driver is one of the components that you need to download and install AGAIN. Well, not if your hardware vendor gave you a disc. Yes, there is driver backup software available that can make the job easy for you. But here, I want to show you one of the coolest and easiest ways to backup and restore drivers on Windows 10. All done with one command from Command prompt.
We will use the famous one dissolution command here. What it will do is grab the drivers from your system drive and store it in the location you want. Therefore, create a backup that can be used later to restore with the same command. If you are new to DISM here is a quick overview of it to help you understand better.
Conveying Your Knowledge: What is DISM?
As stated here on MSDN, the DISM command stands for Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM.exe). What this executable basically does is it manages Windows Image Files (.wim files) and Virtual Hard Disks (.vhd). You must have seen .wim file in the Windows Install ISO. That file is managed by DISM.
The Windows upgrade you are currently running is also done by dism.exe. You can split a large Windows Image File into different files and store them in different storage devices. Troubleshooting your existing Windows Image and install/backup image drivers (which is what I’ll show you here) can both be done using DISM.
Use DISM to backup drivers in Windows 10
So here’s a command that you can simply copy, paste into the Command Prompt. Make sure you open Command Prompt as administrator.
remove/online/export driver/destination:D:\PcDrivers
Replace the destination path with your own. You can even set the path to the USB Flash drive or Disk. However, make sure that your output folder name doesn’t have any spaces. Otherwise, the command will throw an error.
Here, DISM will get your driver from the following location: C:/Windows/System32/DriverStore. This is how the output will look like.
After all drivers are exported it will show – The operation completed successfully. Your destination directory will be filled with driver files. Now let’s see the command to restore these drivers.
Driver Recovery
You just need to make one change in the above command. Instead of /export-driver use /Additional drivers and add /recursive Final.
remove /online /Add-Driver /Drivers:D:\PcDrivers /Recurse
It will install all the drivers on your system that you backed up in the destination folder above.
Alternative software?
If you are looking for an alternative software for the above functions then you should use Driver Store Explorer. You will get detailed information about all the drivers stored in your system. Fight listed to get all installed or used drivers More packages to install the backed up driver.
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