How to Backup Drivers in Windows 11 Using Windows Terminal

If you want to keep all the drivers that have been installed on your device, maybe for you to restore them after a clean install, you can easily do that with Windows Terminal, and of course with the steps that WinPoin will show you, you no longer need to download all the drivers manually. manually, one by one, and this can prevent problems compatibility issues if there is a driver that you exclude from Windows Updates.

Now go ahead, here are the steps to Backup Drivers in Windows 11 using Windows Terminal.

Step 1. First, please open Windows Terminal as Administrator.

Step 2. Next, please type the following command:

pnputil /export-driver * "D:BackupDriver"

Now D:BackupDriver is the location where later the Backup Driver will be stored, please change it to the location you want to specify, but here I will save it on Drive D, which is precisely in the “BackupDriver” folder.

After that, continue by pressing the Enter key to start doing the Backup.

After the process is complete, later all Driver files will be directly stored in the folder that we have specified, for example as shown in the following image:

Well done, now all the drivers on your device have been backed up and stored in the local folder that you created and specified earlier.

How to Restore

Now, to do a restore, the method is very easy too, and maybe you already know this classic way, namely by using the Device Manager, if you don’t know, here are the short steps.

Step 1. First open Device Manager.

Step 2. Right-click on your device’s Computer Name > Add drivers.

Step 3. After that, click Browse > then select the location where the Backup Driver was, make sure you check the option Include subfolders yes.

Click Next, and then Device Manager will restore and install all the drivers on your Windows 11.

This step is actually quite simple, but for those of you who use Graphic Drivers from Nvidia, AMD, you may have to install them manually via the installer which you can download from the official website to get the best graphics driver experience.

Please try guys, hopefully it’s useful.