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Driver Magician Lite identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their 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 had the original driver diskettes in your hands.

homepage: http://www.drivermagician.com/Lite.htm
download URL: http://www.drivermagician.com/PortableDML.zip

Driver Magician Lite can only backup your drivers. To restore them, you need the full version: http://www.drivermagician.com/Lite.htm.

you can restore them individually through the Device Manager. this is still a worthy app that lets you easily store all your drivers on a disk before you reformat your computer.

That's good to know. Thanks, garbanzo.

FYI, Gizmo's Freeware recently updated review of free driver backup utilities, with a favorable mention of Driver Magician Lite:

• Best Free Windows Driver Backup and Restore
  http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-fr ... backup.htm