Location of drivers

[stech1]

Recently we have been restaging a lot of machines. I was wondering is there one location where the drivers are located so that we could burn the directory before starting the restage. I thought that the system32\drivers folder would be the location in a windows xp machine but when we copied the folder and tried to detect hardware, it came up with nothing.

I have tried to search the web but have not been able to come up with anything. Perhaps its not possible but if there were a way to copy all the drivers and then, after the restage point to that location to install all the hardware it would be great.

TIA

 

[franklin97355]

The inf folder is another place but you should really be asking this question in the OS forums 'cause it's not really a hardware issue.

 

[wolluf]

What do you mean by 'restage'? (is this a clean reinstall of operating system?).

For drivers not provided by MS, you generally need to original driver package when reinstalling, not the 'where the drivers are stored in windows'.