Updating/slipstreaming/sysprep A Ghost Image

[jaks13579]

I have a ghost image of a system that I need to restore onto the same box but the raid controler has changed and I can not get the old one working anymore.

Is there any way to restore an image to the new drive and controller and some how alter the drivers so that I don't get a BSOD when it can't find the old controler? I'm not sure what term you would use to describe this process, but I'm trying to avoid a clean install, scripted or otherwise.

I would guess that using sysprep some how to get it to redetect all the hardware would be the best way but I have not used it before and I am not sure if you can add it to a drive while in DOS/dos with ntfs.

Thanks..

[Dahi]

Can you boot into safe mode and install the new drivers?

[Takeshi]

A sysprep'ed system on first restart detects PnP devices but not Mass Storage Controllers as such. If the controllers are different and it cannot find the drivers then it won't start.

It's not possible to sysprep on a ghost image.

It might be possilbe to add the drivers to the image or to a partition restored by the image. The partition is not bootable but that's not the intention. The idea is to access this partition from a bootable OS. Add the drivers. Re-image. That's the theory at least.