Rick, There is a free program called Windrivers backup that will save them for you to a disk. Then you can tell Windows to look in the right drive for them. Here is the link for it http://www.downseek.com/download/25248.asp Jo Ann A friend of mine bought a pc 1 1/2 years ago, and didn't get the drive files with it. I need to reformat the HDD, and was wondering if I can just download the drivers from the PC onto a diskette to use later. Does anyone know if this will work??? How would I get the driver files to work in the new harddrive???? Do I just load them into the Windows/system directory??? Thanks for your help. Rick To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk