Re: How to scan for and download missing drivers?

On Feb 19, 8:08 am, Baron Samedi <Papa.Legba....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Aaargh, I've done it this time !

I have a C: drive and two IDE drives which are mirrored with a
hardware RAID controller.

The mirroed drives hold data that I don't want lost in a drive crash,
like photos, code, other data, and lots of install programs .... and
drivers ....

So, I reinstalled Windows on C: and reformetted C: and now although
the BIOS and Linux can see the RAID, Windows doesn't see the RAID
drive(s).

Guess where the windows drivers for the RAID controller are ?

Ok, I can try to retrieve them from Linux, but before I thought of
that, I noticed that there are a number of programs out there which
will scan your PC and recommend driver and program updates if newer
versions are available.

Does anyone know of these?

DriverAgent looks good for drivers and CNET'shttp://www.versiontracker.com/subscribe/drivers-software-updates/
looks good too.

The question is whether they, or others like them are worth $29, which
is best and if there are any free alternatives. I used to like BigFix,
but that has been discontinued.

In general, it's enough to detect what is installed and look for newer
versions, but in a case like this it is also good to be able to spot
what is missing.

What do you think ?

No matter what "system" you will use to scan for the missing drivers,
nothing beats looking on the "hardware" manufacturer's own web site.
Most software scan foir drive system can recommend / find wrong
drivers since the manufacturer reserve the right to "tweak" the
"referrence drivers" for the hardware component (ex: nVidia video
card drivers.)
.

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