Offline SATA driver installation utility?

[Stu]

Recently I was tackling the infamous issue of trying to get Vista working on a new motherboard without re-installing the OS. Because the original mobo had failed I was getting the 0x7b BSOD on reboot due to incompatible SATA drivers.

In the research process I stumbled across a freeware utility that was supposedly able to boot from CD and uninstall the offending SATA drivers. I think the idea was to instead enable a generic driver so you could at least boot Windows. The comments seemed pretty favourable too. I didn't get a chance to download it and like an idiot forgot to bookmark and now I can't find it anywhere.

Does anybody have a clue what I may be referring to?

 

[16k_zx81]

Dont know.

Two workarounds that come to mind:

1. Laplink PC mover

2. A hardware-independent image of the original OS restored to the new machine/mobo.

May save you some time if you dont manage to find the specific resource you're looking for.

 

[ajc196]

If you can hop into the BIOS and change the SATA mode to IDE/ATA, you can at least boot to safe mode. You can go and remove drivers that way, and install the correct ones. Then put the SATA mode back to AHCI in the BIOS.

 

[Avgsmoe]

The old fix_hdc script should work. I've used it without fail on vista and windows 7 installs. Or you can try offlinesysprep tool. If you can't find them I can dig up the links (hard to do from an iPhone)

 

[gazza]

Try doing a universal restore with Shadowprotect. I use it to install images of operating systems to dissimilar hardware (new systems). You can add the chipset drivers (sata disk controller drivers) to the restore image and way you go.

 

[Crgky127]

+1 for FixHDC (by the way is it available as a standalone? UBCD4Win takes forever to boot)

 

[Avgsmoe]

+1 for FixHDC (by the way is it available as a standalone? UBCD4Win takes forever to boot)

You should run it from the system it's being migrated to so pe environments make sense. There are other bootable win builds that boot faster like live xp that it works with.

 

[Crgky127]

You should run it from the system it's being migrated to so pe environments make sense. There are other bootable win builds that boot faster like live xp that it works with.

Sorry I shouldn't have said standalone, I meant a bootable environment that only has FixHDC. Thanks for the tip on live xp, I'll check it out.

 

[ZenTree]

paragon adaptive restore has been solid for me