( Driver back up ) Driver DVDs

Driver DVDs

I think broadly there are three ways of doing this, the second two I mention are similar and involve truly backing up , whereas the first I mention in this post, is not strictly speaking backing up , but I think is quite a good idea in addition to doing one or more of the others

Driver DVD (or similar software available to download)
Sometimes this might be referred to as a Driver Recovery Disc, or even just Recovery disk, although the terms like repair recovery restore and backup are extremely inconsistently and imprecisely used and most people could be talking about anything when they use them, and half the time have no idea what they are talking about.

I think a long time ago, one or a small number of people decided to develop some software that consisted of two main parts:
_ A large data bank of most of the software available to control ( "drive" ) the various things inside computers mand most of the external devices known to be connected to them.
_ A coding , or set of coding, that in the typically available computers and their operating systems has the ability to check what devices and things are in or connected to a computer, and then , if need be install the correct, or failing that , a working alternative software.

This was done some time ago, and in the meantime this software has been copied, added to , modified and made available by a large amount of people.
You can get the software free or at a small cost as a download from the internet, or alternatively , for a small cost , just a few dollars , barely more than the post costs, you can get the software on a storage device, most typically a DVD.

In the case of most of the DVDs you put them in and they either start doing things on their own, or you try to locate something like an lkadhlHDKJHD .exe file in them , and run that by double clicking on it, or by what ever other method you usually use to run external software from a DVD disc.
Usually then a user friendly interface pops up and is fairly easy to follow.

I would recommend finding a trusted source and buy some of these Discs, as they are very cheap.
Most of them have been modified many times and sold on by people as their own, and you may be able to modify them further yourself, to add software that you know you need.
Knowing how to do that might become clear as we discuss the other two ways of backing up.




I may come back here later and discuss making / modifying your own DVDs