Windows 2003 Replace mass storage device

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Hi all,
im looking to replace a mass-storage card (the hard drives
will remain the same) on a server - and im wondering if there is a way
to inject the required mass-storage driver to the existing install of
win 2003 R2 SP x64 without a rebuild.

Any sugestions (or kb articles, which i cant find!) appreciated.
 
I've moved the startup disk from the main-board's controller to a PCI IDE
RAID controller card, without any problems.

1. Install the hardware.
2. Windows will detect it.
3. Install the drivers and restart.
4. Make shure it works, power off and move the disks to it.
5. Windows should be able to start from the new card, because the drivers
are now installed.
6. Windows will reinstall the drivers for the disks.
7. At that point if you are lucky - that's it. If you are not, Windows will
assign a different drive letter for the startup partition. It will then fail
to load the user profile at logon and logoff the user. This can be fixed if
you modify the registry from a working system.


George Valkov



"verukins" wrote:
| Hi all,
| im looking to replace a mass-storage card (the hard drives
| will remain the same) on a server - and im wondering if there is a way
| to inject the required mass-storage driver to the existing install of
| win 2003 R2 SP x64 without a rebuild.
|
| Any sugestions (or kb articles, which i cant find!) appreciated.
|
 
On Jul 15, 5:47 pm, "George Valkov" <a...@b.com> wrote:
> I've moved the startup disk from the main-board's controller to a PCI IDE
> RAID controller card, without any problems.
>
> 1. Install the hardware.
> 2. Windows will detect it.
> 3. Install the drivers and restart.
> 4. Make shure it works, power off and move the disks to it.
> 5. Windows should be able to start from the new card, because the drivers
> are now installed.
> 6. Windows will reinstall the drivers for the disks.
> 7. At that point if you are lucky - that's it. If you are not, Windows will
> assign a different drive letter for the startup partition. It will then fail
> to load the user profile at logon and logoff the user. This can be fixed if
> you modify the registry from a working system.
>
> George Valkov
>
> "verukins" wrote:
>
> | Hi all,
> | im looking to replace a mass-storage card (the hard drives
> | will remain the same) on a server - and im wondering if there is a way
> | to inject the required mass-storage driver to the existing install of
> | win 2003 R2 SP x64 without a rebuild.
> |
> | Any sugestions (or kb articles, which i cant find!) appreciated.
> |

Hey George,
Thanks for the reply.

Sounds like a good idea, i will try it.
 
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