Windows 10: How to restore drivers backed up via Dism /Online /Export-Driver

If I backup my drivers on my Win 10 Pro X64 system using

Dism /Online /Export-Driver /Destination*Biggrin:\Lenovo_Drivers

how do I restore them after I do a clean install? I've seen lots of tutorials on how to backup but nothing on how to restore when needed?

:)

 

Windows 10 Pro

What do you want to repair?

https://www.lifewire.com/how-do-i-automatically...

There are also a number of built in and downloadable from MS "Trouble shooter" applets for specific problems.

There is also a manual process you can run from the command application using the DISM and Chkdsk commands.

SIMPLE, 1ST STEP IN TROUBLE SHOOTING- CHKDSK AND DISM

Press Windows key + X

Click on “Command Prompt (Admin)”

Type (or paste) and press <enter> to Scan the integrity of all protected system files and replace incorrect versions with correct Microsoft versions.

SFC /SCANNOW

Then run next command to check the disk and display a status report.:

Chkdsk c: /F

You will have to restart the computer for that check to work.

Repair The Installed Windows Image

After ChkDsk is done go back to the admin prompt and run following commands, one at a time

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

MANAGE DISM WITH THE COMMAND PROMPT / POWERSHELL

Software: Windows 8 & 10 | Last modified on 2017-03-21

A guide to using the Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool with the Command Prompt or PowerShell.

REPAIR THE INSTALLED WINDOWS IMAGE

1. Open the Command Prompt (Admin) or PowerShell (Admin).

• Execute dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth to check whether the image has been flagged as corrupted by a failed process and whether the corruption can be repaired.

• Execute dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth to scan the image for component store corruption.

• Execute dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth to scan the image for component store corruption, and then perform repair operations automatically.

VIEW & EXPORT INSTALLED DRIVERS

1. Open the Command Prompt (Admin) or PowerShell (Admin).

• Execute dism.exe /Online /Get-Drivers to display information about all drivers in an offline image or a running operating system.

• Execute dism.exe /Online /Export-Driver /Destinationath to export all third-party driver packages from an offline image or a running operating system.

Example: dism.exe /Online /Export-Driver /Destination:C:\Drivers\Backup

Replace Path with the location where you want to save the drivers.

IMPORT & EXPORT FILE EXTENSION TYPE ASSOCIATIONS

1. Open the Command Prompt (Admin) or PowerShell (Admin).

• Execute dism.exe /Online /Export-DefaultAppAssociationsath to export the default application associations from a running operating system.

Example: dism.exe /Online /Export-DefaultAppAssociations:C:\Extensions\Backup.xml

Replace Path with the location where you want to save the file.

• Execute dism.exe /Online /Import-DefaultAppAssociationsath to import a set of default application associations to a Windows image.

Example: dism.exe /Online /Import-DefaultAppAssociations:C:\Extensions\Backup.xml

Replace Path with the location where you’ve saved the file.

 

Windows 10, major issues.

I might try backing up drivers when things are working normal;

PowerShell

Export-WindowsDriver -Online -Destination
X:\Drivers (change drive letter)

Then when windows updates again, go to device manager and update the wifi driver and force it to find that x:/Drivers folder and hope things become happy.

 

Dism /online /Add-Driver /Driver:\Lenovo_Drivers /Recurse

The /recurse adds all. If you wanted just the one (for some reason) you'd specify the relevant subdirectory inside Lenovo_Drivers.

 

Or you can use Device Manager > select the unknown device > point to your Driver folder..
windows will do the rest..

 

Assuming that only the drivers with yellow question marks are the only ones you want to update.

In my case my SD card reader looks fine on device manager but doesn't work until I install the correct driver.

If you export the drivers you may as well import them.

 

Thanks to both of you. I'll want to import all of them as my computer works great as far as devices is concerned. I'l going to clean install to fix another problem.

 

Unless there are several older versions of the driver in the database-
Then you end up with several versions of the driver in the OS database...

Using Device manager will install just the newest version in the database in to the OS

 

You can run through them with pnputil or DriverStore Explorer and delete the ones you don't want. Either before or after.

 

Viewing that link for driverstore, it reports that its only been tested on Windows 7 and vista.....does not mention anything about working on Windows 10 ?? *sarc

 

It does exactly the same. If you really wanted you could use powershell add-windowsdriver if you wanted to be (mildy) up to date.

The powershell commands only dism anyway though so no point unless you prefer the syntax.

Here you go then - what is the difference: Code: Dism /Add-Driver /Driver:\Lenovo_Drivers /Recurse[/quote] or Code: Add-WindowsDriver -Driver D:\Lenovo_Drivers -Recurse[/quote] Only difference is - or /. The same thing is done anyway.

To be honest with you. I use pnputil.exe or powershell. I find the dism syntax confusing. Backwards and forwards with the slash thing. Then you have a colon. Or a semi. Seems a bit dodgy to me.

All of them do the same thing though so it makes (as they say) no odds either way.

 

or Code: Add-WindowsDriver -Driver D:\Lenovo_Drivers -Recurse[/quote] Only difference is - or /. The same thing is done anyway.

To be honest with you. I use pnputil.exe or powershell. I find the dism syntax confusing. Backwards and forwards with the slash thing. Then you have a colon. Or a semi. Seems a bit dodgy to me.

All of them do the same thing though so it makes (as they say) no odds either way.[/quote] Nope if you tell me that Driverstore works, that's good enough for me *Smile

Darn it the program needs Net Frame work 3.5 installed to run. Don't know if I want to install that for just one program.