DriverGrabber is a tiny portable utility that allows you to easily create a backup of all your important third party Windows system drivers. This driver backup tool can be useful for anyone that might need to reformat or reinstall Windows. That is, those of us who do not want to have to hunt down all of our hardware specific drivers - post install.
DriverGrabber | Portable Driver Backup
The DriverGrabber is a driver backup tool that was made to extract or "grab" device drivers from an existing operating system installation. It works by copying each of your computers third party system drivers to its own "Drivers" directory, making a backup that is easy to retrieve later. Ensuring that you will always have the specific drivers for any given computer backed up for use down the road when it comes time to reinstall.
Authors Website: siginetsoftware.com
Developer: Christopher L Greer (Siginet Software)
License: Freeware
Downloading: You can get it here: DriverGrabber Download
How to perform a Driver Backup with the tool
To backup drivers from a computer where the tool is run:
- Download and unzip the program to a folder using 7-zip.
- Run the executable from the unzipped folder.
- The program will detect and extract all of the driver files it finds into their own separate folders within the folder where the executable is run.