Resetting my PC

In January of this year my son had a hard drive problem that fixed itself.
See here: Fixing Harddrive?
A month ago, it started to act up again and I got a new hard drive and installed a copy of windows version 2004 on it. The install went fine till the last boot up when windows informs me that the wrong video driver was installed and I was looking at a “strobe light”. So, I put on my sunglasses and installed driver updater and the problem was fixed. It is running just fine. Now my question: Since I don’t have a factory recovery partition, I can only reset this PC with windows recovery, will it keep the driver I installed and use it? If not, I cannot give this PC to any one because most users don’t have the knowledge to do a driver update, especially if the screen turns into a strobe light.
Perhaps there is a way to install the driver before it gets to OOBE?
Thanks

Since I don’t have a factory recovery partition...I cannot give this PC to any one

You should be able to create one without much difficulty.

Dism++ makes it easy. Dism++10.1.1000.100.zip

1. Export the driver from your current installation
2. Mount the install.wim image
3. Integrate the driver you exported into the mounted image
4. Save and then unmount the image.

You can use that install.wim on a recovery partition ( which should be straightforward to create) and on a bootable usb stick.

dalchine,
as soon as i had it running the way I like it, i made an image and can re install with that any time. But that was not the question.

SIW2,
Where do I find the install.wim file? it is not on my USB Stick with windows install files. is it on my hard drive? if so, where
Thanks

PS I have an Install.ESD

I have an Install.esd

I looked on line and it can be converted to a .WIM file

OK, thanks not quite sure how to use the DISM file yet, i will dig into it
Thanks

See this link to backup and restore drivers:
Backup and Restore Device Drivers in Windows 10