• From: Harrisburg, PA
  • Registered: 2009-01-10
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Topic: looking for a way to export OFFLINE drive's drivers, cleanly

Hi guys.  I have been banging out a data backup app for my shop and it has come a long way since I started it.  I told my techs to please let me know any features they wanted, and one of the guys said he'd like it to save drivers.  Normally that isn't a big deal, many apps can do that for free and are standalone, and I could probably make (or find) a good one in AutoIt.

My snag is that my backup app is designed to work on either the current OS drive or backup an offline drive, and I have not yet seen a driver backup tool that can compile a nice, tidy package of drivers backed up from the non-OS disk.  Any leads there?  If not, simply grabbing the entire contents of windows\system32\drivers and windows\inf should contain 99% of the files needed (I see some files wind up in windows\system32 but I'm NOT grabbing that whole thing!!  smile ) but doing that would seem so sloppy.  Is there a way of determining WHICH of the drivers from the above folders were the currently active drivers on an offline drive??

And if you want to have a look at the backup app as it stands, check it out!  http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index … p;p=709825  I know many of you guys are good programmers, so if you have suggestions (beyond me explaining what the heck my variables mean, LOL) then please let me know.

Thanks a lot

Ian

BTW, use the file links on the bottom post, not the top.......

Last edited by llewxam (2009-07-23 06:07:49)

  • Registered: 2009-07-22
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Re: looking for a way to export OFFLINE drive's drivers, cleanly

I would love to be able to mount a drive from a bad OS and extract the OEM SLP KEY, the activation files and all the system drivers

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Re: looking for a way to export OFFLINE drive's drivers, cleanly

temporalwar wrote:

I would love to be able to mount a drive from a bad OS and extract the OEM SLP KEY, the activation files and all the system drivers

I've got the exact tools you need.  Let me package them up and upload them.  I'll post a link here.

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Re: looking for a way to export OFFLINE drive's drivers, cleanly

mr_smartepants wrote:
temporalwar wrote:

I would love to be able to mount a drive from a bad OS and extract the OEM SLP KEY, the activation files and all the system drivers

I've got the exact tools you need.  Let me package them up and upload them.  I'll post a link here.

I uploaded the files.  Click on the link in my signature (OEMSCAN...).  The archive is at the bottom of the very first post in that thread. "Grab_files.7z"

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  • From: Harrisburg, PA
  • Registered: 2009-01-10
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Re: looking for a way to export OFFLINE drive's drivers, cleanly

The DriverGrabber utility is pretty nice for the local drive, but I'm still trying to find a nice way of doing the exact same thing to an offline drive, not the main drive.  Again, as an example, being a technician I am often hooking up other people's drives as slaves to recover data, and I have been asked by other techs in my company to try to find a way to back up drivers from the customer's drives, using my data backup tool.  I don't see how DriverGrabber is useful for that situation.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks

Ian

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Re: looking for a way to export OFFLINE drive's drivers, cleanly

UBCD4Win has some tools for that too.

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  • From: Harrisburg, PA
  • Registered: 2009-01-10
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Re: looking for a way to export OFFLINE drive's drivers, cleanly

Thanks man, I'm downloading it now, we'll see what it can do   not, I guess it's just gonna be a file grab, I was hoping for something prettier but oh-well....  smile

Ian