migrating from old hardware to new hardware.

[Andy]

is there some kind of trick where you can add drivers to a working
windows installation so that if you were to just take those hard disks and
put them in a newer machine it would boot up and work?

I made a ghost image of one of the disks in my working exchange server and
then put the ghosted sata drive in a brand new dell poweredge 1900 and like
i expected it just reboots repeatedly.

Is there some magic way to add drivers for the perc sas raid controller
before i move the image over so that the boot loader is able to find the
windows installation? or am I dreaming in teletubbies land?

-Drew

 

[Mathieu CHATEAU]

You can inject drivers, but will be hard to covers alls..
do you have perc raid ?
You may install dell drivers and make again your ghost

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Cordialement,
Mathieu CHATEAU
http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com


"Andy" <aweaver@ee.net> wrote in message
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> is there some kind of trick where you can add drivers to a working
> windows installation so that if you were to just take those hard disks and
> put them in a newer machine it would boot up and work?
>
> I made a ghost image of one of the disks in my working exchange server and
> then put the ghosted sata drive in a brand new dell poweredge 1900 and
> like i expected it just reboots repeatedly.
>
> Is there some magic way to add drivers for the perc sas raid controller
> before i move the image over so that the boot loader is able to find the
> windows installation? or am I dreaming in teletubbies land?
>
> -Drew
>