I think that leads me to using method 2: Install a base XP on the HP when I am onsite, and then use BackupExec to restore the XP image on top of that, (And not overwrite the hardware profile).
This alleviates the issue with the storage drivers. This works great on servers, do it all the time. I would think it would work pretty much the same on XP. Thanks y'all. Sam -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 11:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware If you get an answer to this I'd love to know. We can get around it by installing the drivers for a standard IO card (say an adaptec scsi/sas and an adaptec sata raid controller) before doing the DR images. However, that assumes that we a) have the replacement raid card handy come the restoration time and also that we don't need to restore to some other hardware. Being able to restore to something totally dissimilar would be great. -----Original Message----- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 September 2008 17:06 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Restore an XP Image to dissimilar hardware It's not the HALs you need to worry about, it's the storage drivers. The images will "boot" far enough to blue screen with STOP code 0x7B (aka INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE). If you can get the storage drivers squared away they'll most definitely boot - I know this 'cause I have a "universal" XP SP3 ghost image that will Just Work (except for things like audio) on the machines in question. Sam Cayze wrote: > Would it even boot at all? The HALs are way different. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
