Gromit2005

I had to restore an image of a failed old HP machine into a new HP G4. The system wouldn't boot, but I was able to fix it by perfroming in-place upgrade and supplying the driver with F6. I plan a migration of my old systems into mostly G4, and I need a fatser and easier procedure to add mass-storage drivers to an offline system (from WinPE). Is there such an utility, or may be someone can give me pointers on which C++ functions to use to write one? I also thought about adding drivers to a live old system before backing up and restoring, but it's impossible to install the drivers without hardware being installed. Is there anyway way to bypass this limitation and add drivers to a live system that doesn't have the hardware installed? This is a huge problem for all System Administartors, and it would be great finally to have a solution for it. thanks, Gromit2005