Free Program to backup windows drivers

DriverMax is a new program which allows you to easily reinstall all your Windows drivers. No more searching for rare drivers on discs or on the web or inserting one installation CD after the other. Simply export all your current drivers to a folder or a compressed file. After reinstalling Windows you will have everything in one place. The Import Drivers wizard allows you to install all the drivers that you exported earlier. Windows XP only.

http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax/

 

I found it listed at my fav shareware/freeware site. The reviews look pretty good. Apparently it does require registration though...
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/drivermax.html

There's also a freebie batch file that PC World made available (see Grab drivers off your PC.) It doesn't zip the backups but it doesn't require registration either... http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,122935-page,1/article.html?findid=50920

 

Personally I don't see much benefit in this software.
1. Acronis True Image took one-time clean images and takes daily images of all my Windows drivers already.
2. FirstDefense-ISR took one-time clean archived snapshots and takes daily archived snapshots as second backup.
All stored on an off-line external harddisk.

 

The benefit of these types of programs is when you use True Image Workstation with Universal Restore to restore to another machine.

I use Driver Genius to automatically install all of my drivers for the machine to be restored after booting.