if i reformat and delete everything on my PC....will i need to download new drivers?

Question

i was told by my friend i needed to download new drivers....i wanna reformat my computer but wil i need new drivers?

Answer 1

if u dont have the drivers on a disk .. yeah

Answer 2

The simple answer is "Yes." However, you can read PC World Magazine's article on how to back up your device drivers on to a CD before you reformat your hard drive. Once you have reformatted your hard drive, place the CD in to your optical drive and install them. Here's the article

"Answer Line: Emergency Boot CDs for PCs Without Floppy Drives: Plus: Put Windows-enforced downtime to good use; copy device drivers from your PC to CD; safeguard files and folders." -- written by Lincoln Spector (my PC guru and hero)

(http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,122935/article.html#)

Ignore the stuff about creating a bootable CD. Just follow the directions for copying your computer's device drivers on to a CD


"Grab Drivers Off Your PC
Is it possible for me to back up all of the device drivers on my computer to a CD?

Alex Garcia, Miami

I've prepared a batch file that copies most (if not all) of your driver files. Click here to download driverback.bat. Once it's on your system, double-click the file to create your backup.

The batch file copies the drivers (and a lot of extra files) to a folder called 'driverback' inside My Documents. Use your CD authoring software to copy the contents of this folder to a CD.

To reinstall drivers, use either Device Manager or Control Panel's Add Hardware applet to open the Hardware Update Wizard. If the wizard doesn't automatically look for drivers on the CD, point to the CD drive when asked for a location....[read the rest of the article].

Answer 3

*if your are using the external devices like mobile phones or mp3 players or any other U.S.B devices then you must have to install the drivers for that devices after the format your PC.

*For any other peripherals like sound card or graphics card or other , you have to use your manufacturers CD.

*There are many inbuilt drivers in Windows Xp SP-2 that may be automatically install your drivers for the device.

Best Of Luck. !

Answer 4

i would suggest at the very least getting your ethernet and video driver on a disk before you do this. You will need those to get back up to the net to get the rest.

Answer 5

of course if you don't already have the disc that came with your motherboard you will have to download the drivers you need from whatever websites supports your computer.

Answer 6

Yes you will. When you "delete everything", you really "delete everything". You should backup you drivers so you can reinstall them later. Use this:

Answer 7

If you reformat your computer, it will delete everything and i mean everything.