Computers Die

  When your hard drive fails, there are three areas of concern.  Number one is your work data which should, of course, be backed up.  Number two are your program installs which could be restored to a repaired computer from a disk image (a total hard drive backup) made before the computer died and restored on a new hard drive on the computer that the drive failed on.  A product like Drive Image is good for that.  That doesn't work on a new computer since it might not accept your old windows installation which was done on another computer.  If you are replacing the hard drive or re-installing windows on an old computer, and you just want the drivers that you no longer have disks or copies of anywhere, there is a little utility for free that lets you, in seconds,  scan a computer for the windows hardware drivers and back them up on an external drive like a flash drive.  That freebie is called Double Driver and you can get it if you click here.