{"id":18918,"date":"2022-09-03T10:28:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T10:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=18918"},"modified":"2022-09-03T10:28:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T10:28:19","slug":"backup-and-restore-drivers-in-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/backup-and-restore-drivers-in-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Way to Backup and Restore Drivers in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Need to save all your installed drivers on your PC? Before doing a clean install, it’s advise to backup all existing drivers so you don’t need to spend time downloading each driver and avoid compatibility issues. We’ve already covered how to backup & restore device drivers using the DISM command<\/a>. In this tutorial, we’ll show you another way to backup and restore drivers in Windows 11.<\/p>\n

Part 1: Backup and Restore Drivers Using Windows Terminal<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Right-click the Start<\/strong> button on the taskbar and click “Windows Terminal (Admin)<\/strong>“.\n

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  2. When the Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell launches, enter the following command and press Enter to backup all your drivers. Make sure you replace D:\\DriverBackup<\/code> with the folder you created for saving the exported drivers.
    \npnputil \/export-driver * \"D:\\DriverBackup\"<\/code><\/p>\n

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    \tJust like creating driver backup, restoring it is also pretty simple and easy to perform. Just run this command to reinstall all the drivers you’ve saved.
    \npnputil \/add-driver \"D:\\DriverBackup\\*.inf\" \/subdirs \/install<\/code><\/p>\n

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    Part 2: Restore All Drivers Using Device Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Press the Windows<\/strong> key + R<\/strong> together to open a Run window. Type devmgmt.msc<\/code> and then click OK<\/strong> to launch Device Manager<\/a>.\n

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    2. Right-click your computer’s name at the top of the device list, and choose Add drivers<\/strong>.\n

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    3. Click on Browse<\/strong> to select the location where you’ve backed up the device drivers, tick the “Include subfolders<\/strong>” checkbox and click Next<\/strong>.\n

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    4. The program will restore and install all your drivers and Windows 11 can then identify the unknown devices with their proper drivers.\n

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      That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Need to save all your installed drivers on your PC? Before doing a clean install, it’s advise to backup all existing drivers so you don’t need to spend time downloading each driver and avoid compatibility issues. We’ve already covered how to backup & restore device drivers using the DISM command. In this tutorial, we’ll show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,4713],"tags":[5011,5012,5013],"class_list":["post-18918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-11","tag-backup-drivers-windows-11","tag-backup-drivers-windows-11-cmd","tag-import-drivers-windows-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18918"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18941,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918\/revisions\/18941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}