DriverPacks.net Forum - Overwrite question

Re: Overwrite question

null@example.com (WraithTDK) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:20:42 +0000

Cool, I'll try that. As for space; I've got a shoebox of thumbdrives from various sources and at least a couple of them are 16GB. Shouldn't be a problem.

Re: Overwrite question

null@example.com (mr_smartepants) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:47:18 +0000

That's great if you have available space. SAD2 works that way too. We call it "Method 1". Though Method 1 still copies the files to the target system.
From the readme.txt

What goes where?
NT5\x86\
-Method-1: Use DriverPacks BASE to create a Method-1 SAD disc selecting the packs you want to include. By default, the folder "DriverPacks.net" will be created in C:\.
Copy the contents of that DriverPacks.net folder to this folder so that the folder heirarchy looks like this: \NT5\x86\D\.
NT6\x64\
-Method-1: Extract the contents of all DriverPacks to the NT6\x64\D\ folder so that the folder heirarchy looks like this: \NT6\x64\D\*. Method 1 will fail if the \NT6\x64\ folder contains any .7z DriverPacks.

NT6\x86\
-Method-1: Extract the contents of all DriverPacks to the NT6\x86\D\ folder so that the folder heirarchy looks like this: \NT6\x86\D\*. Method 1 will fail if the \NT6\x86\ folder contains any .7z DriverPacks.

Hmmm, I wonder if it'll run directly from the USB drive without copying to the target system first.

Re: Overwrite question

null@example.com (WraithTDK) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:19:33 +0000

That's nice, but I'd prefer to simply have a large dump of them on a thumb drive. Seems like it would be faster than having to constantly extract the drivers for the target OS every time I want to use it on a client's system.

Re: Overwrite question

null@example.com (mr_smartepants) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:39:18 +0000

What you want is SAD2. No need to decompress the DriverPacks (unless you want to).
Read the "readme.txt"

Overwrite question

null@example.com (WraithTDK) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:14:05 +0000

I downloaded all the driver-packs and installed them into one directors. There were a lot of files that over-wrote one another. My assumption is that these were the exact same files, as a lot of driver packages include drivers for multiple OSes, thus having them in different locations would be needlessly redundant. Can anyone confirm this? If I want to make an ultimate driver disc for all Windows OSes, do I need to extract all of these packs to their own directories, or will what I've done (extracted them all to one directory and selected