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Question

Can I download all system drivers at once somewhere?

Jun 19, 2013 4:00PM PDT

Hi, I have a Sony vaio pcv-rx860 desktop PC and I had to replace the hard drive and I was wondering if I could download all the drivers at once.

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Jun 19, 2013 4:16PM PDT

The restore media has all those. I'm left to guess you don't have such and will have to check with Sony but sorry, no.

You bring up a good question. That is, after nearly 2 decades why do we put up with driver hunts?
Bob

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thanks, I will just get each of them separate then.
Jun 20, 2013 1:46AM PDT

Ok, I will just go to the sony website and download all of them.

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Answer
Just for next time.
Jun 28, 2013 10:54PM PDT

Hi,

I'd come across this in the past and thought you may be interested in the driver back up tool DriverBackup2.

You can find it here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/drvback/

as well as a video reviewing a few other methods, though there are likely many tools out there, the video can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNgsm8JCJMg

it's from the Hak5 archive, skip to 17:31 for the overview they give of backing up drivers.

Hope this is useful.