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Poll: do you keep your driver cds?

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bigj3347

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I was just thinking about this because i'm formatting my hd and i realized all my driver cds were outdated. I just downloaded all my newest drivers and stored them on my thumbdrive. I was wondering if I was the only one who actually still keeps the cds from my original build; considering how fast these drivers are updated.
 
I keep them anyway. The ones that ship with the product are pretty much guaranteed to work. If something goes wrong I always start with my original drivers, then try to upgrade them.

-fs
 
I keep them,however I have a DVD+RW disc that I use only for all my drivers,so as new ones come out I delete the old ones from the disc and reburn with the latest drivers.
 
I keep them for hardware that needs originals (Audigy needs it no matter what) but have all updates on my PC and CD-R.
Usually all I use is the Audigy drivers, the rest installing off the HDD with updated stuff. I do have all my original CD's stacked in a place I know I can find them if anythings happenes.
 
I keep them just in case I decide to sell whatever they go with, but I generally
use the newer ones I have downloaded.
 
Like most people, I keep them as long as I keep the manual. I haven't actually used a driver disc in years, though.
 
I keep them in a box of misc. computer crap, and use some of them, like by mobo driver cd, whenever I do a reformat.
The updated versions, along with freeware and shareware and updates I download, are on a "downloads" partition on an old spare 7g drive I have on my system to store stuff I never use.
If I were smart I would just reformat, install all my core stuff and clone the system partition, but I am not.
 
To get the system up and running, I use the original drivers. Then, I go to Windows Update and get the latest (I like it how they do that now, put the latest drivers for your particular version of Windows).
When I first used 2k3, I there were no drivers that worked on my hardware and 2k3 (an old thing from 1999). I tried some of the XP drivers and they didn't work properly. So I installed the original NT 4.0 drivers that came with the hardware and they worked perfectly (weird).
 
I keep my video card and soundcard driver CDs since they generall contain DVD software and utilities/programs that aren't available for downloads. ATI uses the CD for verification to enable upgrade DVD decoder downloads as well.
 
Need to keep my mobo's driver cd because XP doesn't recognize the Nvidia NIC, so I need that one for sure 😛

I keep all the others but don't use them.
 
the thumbdrive would scare me as when/if it goes or gets misplaced you lose ALL of your drivers.
if i went that route I'd have to make a coupel of copies to disc as well.
i love to jack around with my system and need the drivers occasionally.
 
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