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Driver Magician 3.4 free for today only
I heard lots of horror stories of people formatting their hard drives
and then reinstalling Windows. Then they pop on here looking for missing drivers. And I often think if only they saved their drivers before formatting everything would have been a lot easier. One of the ones I like is called Driver Magician. And I noticed this one is free for today on the giveawayoftheday website. So this is one I would recommend for anybody who believes they will ever format their hard drives someday. As it will save you a lot of trouble in the future. http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/driver-magician-34/ -- Bill 2 Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2 3 Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC 2 Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux - Puppy - Ubuntu |
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Driver Magician 3.4 free for today only
"BillW50" wrote in message ... I heard lots of horror stories of people formatting their hard drives and then reinstalling Windows. Then they pop on here looking for missing drivers. And I often think if only they saved their drivers before formatting everything would have been a lot easier. One of the ones I like is called Driver Magician. And I noticed this one is free for today on the giveawayoftheday website. So this is one I would recommend for anybody who believes they will ever format their hard drives someday. As it will save you a lot of trouble in the future. http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/driver-magician-34/ -- Bill 2 Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2 3 Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC 2 Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux - Puppy - Ubuntu thanks for the heads up |
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Driver Magician 3.4 free for today only
"BillW50" wrote in message ... I heard lots of horror stories of people formatting their hard drives and then reinstalling Windows. Then they pop on here looking for missing drivers. And I often think if only they saved their drivers before formatting everything would have been a lot easier. One of the ones I like is called Driver Magician. And I noticed this one is free for today on the giveawayoftheday website. So this is one I would recommend for anybody who believes they will ever format their hard drives someday. As it will save you a lot of trouble in the future. http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/driver-magician-34/ -- Bill 2 Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2 3 Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC 2 Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux - Puppy - Ubuntu might be a slight problem....if you do a fresh install of your O/S then you will have to reinstall Driver Magician...which now won't activate. Also, of course, if you saved the drivers anywhere on the HD, you will lose it by formatting. So it would be best to copy the saved driver files to a CD and not rely on the restore function of the program. |
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Driver Magician 3.4 free for today only
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olfart typed on Fri, 6 Mar 2009 13:36:56 -0500: "BillW50" wrote in message ... I heard lots of horror stories of people formatting their hard drives and then reinstalling Windows. Then they pop on here looking for missing drivers. And I often think if only they saved their drivers before formatting everything would have been a lot easier. One of the ones I like is called Driver Magician. And I noticed this one is free for today on the giveawayoftheday website. So this is one I would recommend for anybody who believes they will ever format their hard drives someday. As it will save you a lot of trouble in the future. http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/driver-magician-34/ -- Bill might be a slight problem....if you do a fresh install of your O/S then you will have to reinstall Driver Magician...which now won't activate. Also, of course, if you saved the drivers anywhere on the HD, you will lose it by formatting. So it would be best to copy the saved driver files to a CD and not rely on the restore function of the program. Well actually, Driver Magician allows you to create an EXE file, so reinstallation of Driver Magician isn't necessary. And once you activate it, you don't need to ever do that again. Just open up Regedit and search for Magician and then export it. And yes, always best to save on something else other than the drive you plan on formatting. -- Bill 2 Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2 3 Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC 2 Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux - Puppy - Ubuntu |
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Driver Magician 3.4 free for today only
There is a problem, but that is not a good description of what it is.
The program has a way of "packaging" all of the drivers into a self installing format that does not require Driver Magician on the system being restored. This can then be saved off-line (external hard drive, flash drive, optical media, whatever). The real issue is that I want it for future use on other systems (of mine) ... systems that may not even exist today. And they are not giving you that. They are giving it to you only for use on the systems that you have today and on which you activate it today. olfart wrote: might be a slight problem....if you do a fresh install of your O/S then you will have to reinstall Driver Magician...which now won't activate. Also, of course, if you saved the drivers anywhere on the HD, you will lose it by formatting. So it would be best to copy the saved driver files to a CD and not rely on the restore function of the program. |
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Driver Magician 3.4 free for today only
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Barry Watzman typed on Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:06:51 -0500: There is a problem, but that is not a good description of what it is. The program has a way of "packaging" all of the drivers into a self installing format that does not require Driver Magician on the system being restored. This can then be saved off-line (external hard drive, flash drive, optical media, whatever). The real issue is that I want it for future use on other systems (of mine) ... systems that may not even exist today. And they are not giving you that. They are giving it to you only for use on the systems that you have today and on which you activate it today. olfart wrote: might be a slight problem....if you do a fresh install of your O/S then you will have to reinstall Driver Magician...which now won't activate. Also, of course, if you saved the drivers anywhere on the HD, you will lose it by formatting. So it would be best to copy the saved driver files to a CD and not rely on the restore function of the program. All true Barry, except the secret to activating it again is all in the registry which I previously posted. This is your future activation if you want to reinstall, which isn't necessary on the same machine anyway if you create the EXE file. -- Bill 2 Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2 3 Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC 2 Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux - Puppy - Ubuntu |
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Driver Magician 3.4 free for today only
Barry Watzman wrote:
There is a problem, but that is not a good description of what it is. The program has a way of "packaging" all of the drivers into a self installing format that does not require Driver Magician on the system being restored. This can then be saved off-line (external hard drive, flash drive, optical media, whatever). The real issue is that I want it for future use on other systems (of mine) ... systems that may not even exist today. And they are not giving you that. They are giving it to you only for use on the systems that you have today and on which you activate it today. olfart wrote: might be a slight problem....if you do a fresh install of your O/S then you will have to reinstall Driver Magician...which now won't activate. Also, of course, if you saved the drivers anywhere on the HD, you will lose it by formatting. So it would be best to copy the saved driver files to a CD and not rely on the restore function of the program. My main system here, this one, has a series of folders named after the Dell systems I have worked on, e.g. Dimension4600, Inspiron5100, etc. Each folder has the drivers needed for that specific model. When I get to work on a given model again, I copy the appropriate folder onto a flash stick and install drivers on the target computer from the stick. This is not rocket science. For the cost of a flash stick (Best Buy sold 8GB for under $20 recently), you get your Driver Magician unencumbered by any rules imposed by the software... Ben Myers |
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Driver Magician 3.4 free for today only
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:20:50 -0500, Ben Myers
wrote: Barry Watzman wrote: There is a problem, but that is not a good description of what it is. The program has a way of "packaging" all of the drivers into a self installing format that does not require Driver Magician on the system being restored. This can then be saved off-line (external hard drive, flash drive, optical media, whatever). The real issue is that I want it for future use on other systems (of mine) ... systems that may not even exist today. And they are not giving you that. They are giving it to you only for use on the systems that you have today and on which you activate it today. olfart wrote: might be a slight problem....if you do a fresh install of your O/S then you will have to reinstall Driver Magician...which now won't activate. Also, of course, if you saved the drivers anywhere on the HD, you will lose it by formatting. So it would be best to copy the saved driver files to a CD and not rely on the restore function of the program. My main system here, this one, has a series of folders named after the Dell systems I have worked on, e.g. Dimension4600, Inspiron5100, etc. Each folder has the drivers needed for that specific model. When I get to work on a given model again, I copy the appropriate folder onto a flash stick and install drivers on the target computer from the stick. This is not rocket science. For the cost of a flash stick (Best Buy sold 8GB for under $20 recently), you get your Driver Magician unencumbered by any rules imposed by the software... Ben Myers I think what Barry might have in mind is a portable version of the program so he can do the backup at any given time on any machine?? Of course I have no idea if that exists but I guess Google could find it, if so. |
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Driver Magician 3.4 free for today only
"Ben Myers" wrote in message ... Barry Watzman wrote: There is a problem, but that is not a good description of what it is. The program has a way of "packaging" all of the drivers into a self installing format that does not require Driver Magician on the system being restored. This can then be saved off-line (external hard drive, flash drive, optical media, whatever). The real issue is that I want it for future use on other systems (of mine) ... systems that may not even exist today. And they are not giving you that. They are giving it to you only for use on the systems that you have today and on which you activate it today. olfart wrote: might be a slight problem....if you do a fresh install of your O/S then you will have to reinstall Driver Magician...which now won't activate. Also, of course, if you saved the drivers anywhere on the HD, you will lose it by formatting. So it would be best to copy the saved driver files to a CD and not rely on the restore function of the program. My main system here, this one, has a series of folders named after the Dell systems I have worked on, e.g. Dimension4600, Inspiron5100, etc. Each folder has the drivers needed for that specific model. When I get to work on a given model again, I copy the appropriate folder onto a flash stick and install drivers on the target computer from the stick. This is not rocket science. For the cost of a flash stick (Best Buy sold 8GB for under $20 recently), you get your Driver Magician unencumbered by any rules imposed by the software... Ben Myers That's pretty much the way I do it also, Ben. |
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Driver Magician 3.4 free for today only
"Ben Myers" wrote in message ... Barry Watzman wrote: There is a problem, but that is not a good description of what it is. The program has a way of "packaging" all of the drivers into a self installing format that does not require Driver Magician on the system being restored. This can then be saved off-line (external hard drive, flash drive, optical media, whatever). The real issue is that I want it for future use on other systems (of mine) ... systems that may not even exist today. And they are not giving you that. They are giving it to you only for use on the systems that you have today and on which you activate it today. olfart wrote: might be a slight problem....if you do a fresh install of your O/S then you will have to reinstall Driver Magician...which now won't activate. Also, of course, if you saved the drivers anywhere on the HD, you will lose it by formatting. So it would be best to copy the saved driver files to a CD and not rely on the restore function of the program. My main system here, this one, has a series of folders named after the Dell systems I have worked on, e.g. Dimension4600, Inspiron5100, etc. Each folder has the drivers needed for that specific model. When I get to work on a given model again, I copy the appropriate folder onto a flash stick and install drivers on the target computer from the stick. This is not rocket science. For the cost of a flash stick (Best Buy sold 8GB for under $20 recently), you get your Driver Magician unencumbered by any rules imposed by the software... Ben Myers That's also the way I do it. When I was working, I had the drivers for all of our printers in separate folders on the network, and clones of the different workstations. On my home desktop, I have a folder for my notebook drivers, and on my notebook, the drivers for my desktop, AND a bootable CD for each with drivers. (hey, paranoiacs have enemies, too, you know) SC Tom |
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