Copying Hardware Profiles... or something

Discussion in 'Software' started by L2U2K2E, Feb 5, 2008.

  1. L2U2K2E

    L2U2K2E Private E-2

    Okie, so heres my problem(quoted from another thread):
    so, after this post musksnipe was kind enough to suggest just about every driver fix he could, none of which worked. So i am still soundless except for the occassional beep, and the only fix left seems to be just copying my entire operating system from my old hard drive onto the new one, but then i thought of something. would it be possible to copy my hardware profile from my old drive, everything works fine when booting from that drive.

    Are there any files that i can copy directly from the old hard drive so that the sound will work when booting from the new drive?

    thanks
    -luke
     
    L2U2K2E, Feb 5, 2008
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  2. L2U2K2E

    L2U2K2E Private E-2

    help?

    i couldn't find any bump rules... sorry if i broke them
     
    L2U2K2E, Feb 5, 2008
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  3. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    I'd back up all the non-microsoft drivers from the old hard drive and burn them to a CD. Put the CD in and point the new hard drive to the sound folder on the CD and let it install whatever magic sound driver is on the old hard drive.

    The best free program I've found to back up drivers (both MS and non-MS) is WinDriverBackup by JerMar. I've been searching for the last free version and can't find it.

    Send me a PM and I can get the last free version to you, if you want it.
     
    plodr, Feb 6, 2008
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  4. L2U2K2E

    L2U2K2E Private E-2

    help?

    cant find a current version of that software. im still not sure what to do.
     
    L2U2K2E, Feb 7, 2008
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  5. L2U2K2E

    L2U2K2E Private E-2

    alritght. I downloaded the program you PMed me about and backed up all the realtech sound drivers. these are most of the drivers that show up in the list under device manager>whatever the sound device was called>Driver details. the others seem to be Microsoft drivers and are located in the system 32 file.
    I tried the update driver wizard on the unknown PCI device (pretty sure thats my sound hardware) but when i direct this to the driver (only one of them shows up) i get an error message: "the specified location does not contain information about your hardware"

    what location does contain information about my hardware?
    what am i doing wrong?
     
    L2U2K2E, Feb 7, 2008
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  6. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    Sometimes windows refuses to see what is right in front of it. I've fought with different versions of windows to install drivers. Drag the folder with the drivers for the sound on to your desktop and copy there. Try again. If that doesn't work, maybe someone who runs XP can suggest a better place on the hd to copy the drivers to.
     
    plodr, Feb 7, 2008
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  7. L2U2K2E

    L2U2K2E Private E-2

    Ive used almost every method you could think of to try and install the drivers. my real question is: What files would i need to copy from my old windows file to my new one to bring over the hardware profile?
     
    L2U2K2E, Feb 8, 2008
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