Adding hardware drivers to an existing install of windows.

[Guest Chris McKean]

I have the following scenario with a Windows Server 2003 with SP2 server:

 

If I need to use Symantec Ghost to transfer the data from one server

machine, into

a new machine of a different model, then the usual hope is that enough

drivers are there that the machine will at least, boot up, and then missing

ones can be installed.

Unfortunately, the old machine does not contain drivers compatible with the

new machine's RAID (Intel Matrix Strorage Manager) system. I need to avoid

using something like sysprep for adding in the driver, as I need to maintain

the install exactly as is.

So I see two options:

- Is there a way I can add these into the existing installation on the old

machine? Then the storage drivers will be the Intel RAID ones instead of the

current IDE when I ghost the image onto the new machine.

- Or a different step, would be if there is a way to configure sysprep or

some other method, to only do the drivers part of the system changes, in

which I already have the mass storage settings and drivers configured.

Meaning the machine would even still be connected to the domain properly

when it boots up on the new machine.

 

Any ideas, tips?