Adding hardware drivers to an existing install of windows.

[Chris McKean]

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

 

[Andrew E.]

Matrix storage mgr simply has the drivers/software for RAID with the RAID
controller on that board,thiers a ton of other items you'd be missing..Try
a new installation.

 

[Chris McKean]

New installation, as in, reinstalling the whole Windows system? Alas not an
option...
If there's some way of getting a full boot up on the new machine, I would do
the full install of Intel Matrix Storage Manager after that (and for all the
other hardware components)...
There are methods of getting this to work if one is running the SATA in AHCI
mode instead of RAID, but alas I got the new system specifically for running
RAID1.... hmmm... I have not checked to see if I could do AHCI on one disk,
then successfully turning that into RAID1 without loosing the AHCI mode
data...