SDIO Backup Drivers
by Glenn Delahoy
Copyright 2026
All rights reserved.

SDIO Backup Drivers backs up your installed device drivers! It checks whether the 
installed drivers have valid certificate chains and provides a tool to export and 
archive them ready for submission to SDIO for inclusion in the driver packs or 
just to keep as a backup.

Many users encounter obscure or legacy devices whose drivers are not yet included 
in SDIO's packs. Without an easy contribution process, these drivers risk being 
lost over time. SDIO Backup Drivers enables the community to safely make driver
contributions. Verifying certificate chains ensures only trusted drivers are 
suggested for upload, reducing the risk of tampered binaries.

Credits: Thanks to Ozval for the original suggestion on the forums.

Installation
There's no installation, just unzip and put it somewhere, it doesn't much matter
where.

Archiving
If you have 7-Zip installed, that will be used for archiving. Otherwise the
internal zip routines are used.

Usage
It *should* work out of the box. Just run it.

Once the hardware is scanned and the device list is displayed, simply select
the driver you want to export and click the Export button or the Export All
button. That should give you what you need to rebuild the Windows installation.
You can also click the Prepare SDIO Submission button to create a single zip
ready to send to SDIO for inclusion in the driver packs.

Below the driver properties list, click the little up arrow to open an 
information panel. This displays the INF file for the selected driver and output 
logging for the certificate verification.
