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With my laptop came a recovery CD which doesn't work, and i was wondering if there is any program you can download of the internet which will save all your current drivers to floppy so that you can reinstall them if you format your hardrive.
My 10 gig hardrive is becoming full, and i want to format it but i cant because i do not have any drivers.
The recovery disk doesn't work when i put it in, nor does it boot from it.
Please help.
Thankyou,
James

XP makes most stuff work without needing drivers. You can still download the correct ones if you want, but the system usually has loads of drivers with it already - including generic ones that can be used as a temp until you decide to get the real drivers.

My Sound card uses a generic driver at the moment, and surprisingly, it still works to maximum effect.

Download them before-hand

Ive not heard of a software that does that, have you tried downloading them from the notebooks manafacturers website? also if you install windows xp that usually finds most drivers for you (depending on what speed your system is)

Colin

With my laptop came a recovery CD which doesn't work, and i was wondering if there is any program you can download of the internet which will save all your current drivers to floppy so that you can reinstall them if you format your hardrive.
My 10 gig hardrive is becoming full, and i want to format it but i cant because i do not have any drivers.
The recovery disk doesn't work when i put it in, nor does it boot from it.
Please help.
Thankyou,
James