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7  11 2006

How to install a disk controller driver when Windows won’t boot following an upgrade of drive type.

I found myself in this situation on site about a month ago. I had upgraded (well okay maybe downgraded) a drive from SCSI to SATA and Windows would no longer boot. Normally in this situation I do a repair install but this time I was feeling adventurous and wanted to try something I had thought about doing a while back. Besides repair installs are never any good on servers and always end up causing more problems than they solve.

Basically what needs to be done is you need to boot up the new system disk on a computer that will boot with it plugged in as a non system drive. From here you simply export the appropriate driver files and associated registry entries (located at:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet
\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\]

Also export any associated services located at:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet
\Services\]

You then import them into the SYSTEM hive of the non booting server (located at Windows\System32\config\). To do this load up regedit on the working server, goto File -> Load Hive and load up the SYSTEM mentioned previously. You will need to edit the .reg files you exported so that they point to the right place (where you have loaded the hive into regedit). Obviously the driver files also need to be put in the right place on the new drive also.

Now you are ready to boot off the new drive.

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2 Responses to “How to install a disk controller driver when Windows won’t boot following an upgrade of drive type.”

  1. Indre, Said:
    on September 3rd, 2007 at 7:52 am


    Im wanting to install my ipod shuffle onto the computerbut everytime i get to one place it says i need to contact or upgrade my administration rights.
    But the problem is that I cannot find where that is located. Ive tried many things but cannot find administration rights on my Windows XP.
    can someone pleas help me out?

    Love,
    Indre

  2. john, Said:
    on September 11th, 2007 at 10:57 am


    Hmm. Sounds like you are logged in as a non-administrative user. Is this a work PC by any chance?

    If so then chances are that your administrator has your PCs set up so that you can’t install new hardware as a non admin user. And obviously you can;t upgrade yourself to an administrator either.

    Best bet is to sweet talk your local admin guy into installing the device/ software for you.

    Good luck, John.

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