On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Tom Miller <tmil...@hnncsb.org> wrote: > I need to do a one-time clone to new hardware.
Cloning the disks is easy. The tricky part is usually the device driver for the disk controller. That's often incompatible across hardware. So you try to your cloned disk image on new hardware and get STOP 0x7B, INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE, during Windows startup. Windows doesn't make it easy to change boot disk device drivers after the fact. There's a procedure you can follow ahead of time to install the needed driver and then enable it for boot time. The second part is critical. Simply installing the drivers isn't enough. The driver needs to be enabled for boot or it won't be loaded yet at the point the kernel tries to mount the system partition. There used to be an MSKB on this, but I can't find it right now. I do find articles stating this method is "not supported", so maybe Microsoft's official stance is you can't do this. Meh. That's bogus; it's straightforward. The short version is: Install the driver for the disk controller in the new hardware, and then set the driver's service startup type to SERVICE_BOOT_START. Alternatively, commercial products exist which will let you do this after-the-fact. Acronis "Universal Restore" is one I've heard good things about. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
