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06-18-2007, 11:01 AM
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Driver backup question
I have a driver installed for a matrox video capture card, but have lost the installation CD. The driver is not available for free download (As best as I can tell).
I'm wondering if there are any steps I can take to backup the driver so I can do a repair install of XP. Is it as simple as locating the .sys file through the device manager and saving it somewhere else? Can I just copy and paste the .sys file back into the appropriate folder and expect it to work again? Something tells me this won't work, but maybe...... Thanks in advance.
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06-18-2007, 12:55 PM
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I don't think you are going to have very good luck just copying files. I could be wrong, but I believe driver files are in more than one place.
Can you contact Matrox and get a replacement disk?
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06-18-2007, 01:42 PM
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Did a little Googling:
http://www.drivermagician.com/ There are other packages out there that supposedly can back up drivers too. |
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