I'm actually working around getting rid (as best I can) of a virus that doesn't seem to be particularly nasty. Avira Antivir is doing an excellent job so far, so much so that it detects the virus (exe) if you just highlight it. I'd recommend it in the future.
You might try downloading Avira's
recovery system boot disc, which will let you scan anything attached devices it can recognize. I ran into trouble with my RAID, though, and it only scanned my single drive. If you run this, I'm fairly certain you'll at least cripple the virus enough to the point where you can use your regular OS enough to back up data in a familiar setting.
So hopefully you can boot just fine into linux and are in the process of backing up your files. As for backing up your drivers, I find it strange that you would WANT to do this? Nearly all the drivers you could possibly want are online somewhere. If you download your ethernet/wireless drivers and copy them over to the fresh install of whatever OS, you should be able to then download all the other drivers you need (really all I can think of is video, sound, acpi).
Since this isn't exactly public, and I know it's only going to one person, I can PM you an XP ISO that I have downloaded from MSDN sans key (you already have one, right?) via mediafire. I also have a slightly public key for XP (IDK if it's been used yet; I found it on 4chan).
I recommend backing up your "My Documents" folder, anything you have downloaded via torrent and such and are certain you want to keep, any old games which you know are going to be hard to find again which don't require an ISO to install (SC in particular no longer needs an install, or at least not when I had SC installed on D: and reinstalled windows on C:). Other than that, it's a good time for a fresh start. There's often many programs which you don't have a good reason to keep, but you can't seem to get rid of them.
I'm currently in the process of cleaning up in preparation for an OS upgrade (7 or mint, probably), and there's a surprisingly small amount of data I
really want to keep. I store all my game CDs on ISO file, all my videos/pictures/documents will need to be backed up, but I can redownload windows virtual control panel to mount cds, redownload all of my motherboard/video drivers, redownload the programs I use the most often, and add codecs as I need them to play videos. I'd recommend you to save all your cdkeys in a txt file somewhere so you don't lose them.
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